I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I'm probably emotionally stunted.

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.

I'm pretty sure Adele and James Blunt were dumped by the same man.

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

I am a dreamer but when I wake, you can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take

Things take a long time, but when it's right things move fast.

No matter whether you are black or white, man or woman, gay or straight, Christian, Muslim, or Jew, we all share the same emotions, the same human condition.