If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

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

My parents are still together. I have two sisters. I travel the world and they are the people I speak to.

It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.

I am not into fashion. I just like being able to buy my mates dinner.

My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was. The Army also contributed to sending me off to boarding school.