When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.

Yet ["One More Try" ] really seemed to connect with people, which is a wonderful thing and a marvelous coincidence.

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.

The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

That feels natural to me, singing in a small group of people I just can't do. You'll never hear me sing at a dinner table or anything, but this feels kinda natural. I've done it many, many times. So, and also, the pressure's off me cos I'm not singing on my own. I'm just doing a few harmonies with my stuffed nose.