I had a very important personal point to make with this song [I Want Your Sex]. I just hated the idea that lust and forbidden excitement could only come with sleaze and strangers.

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.

I wouldn't marry until I was ready to have children.

I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.

I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn't it?

[My father] was not a musical man.

I think I'm getting there, but it's very hard to perform at my absolute peak when an awful lot of people come just to make their presence known, when the lights go down and all you can hear is people screaming.