When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

'Tampopo' is a deeply odd film about Japan, ramen noodles, love and sex. It made me very hungry and desperate to travel to Japan. It started my love affair with this amazing country, its culture, its food, its cinema and made me buy my first ticket to the land of the rising sun.

My pure love is playing music.

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.

I'd be worried if I was put in the same category as Michael Bubl I'm trying to sound like a young man, for starters.