I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.

When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.