The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.

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 think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

I'm obsessed with choirs, and always have been, because of that sense of overwhelming vocals.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful.