Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that dress to just go out and buy a pint of milk if they would lend it to me.

I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.

I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in ­pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.