Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that.

The bright days of my youthThey were full of hopeThe great journey that was before me thenWas what was destined to be, bye bye.Now I'm sorrowful,The day is long past.Alas and woe, oh.

Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing. You have to dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with the end result.