If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.

A female vocal can lift a song.

American fans want to meet you, and they wait for that autograph by the stage door. In the UK, it doesn't really happen that much.

I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.

I started meeting the right people, like [producer] Dave [Okumu], who explained to me how songwriting is really simple - "just like shitting," he said. "You gotta let it all out." When he put it like that, however disgusting it is, it made a lot of sense to me.

I always liked how people like Grace Jones and Annie Lennox pushed it with the videos. I'm not the most stylish person at all, but there's something about playing dress-up for the day and playing the role of a singer.

I'm not a complicated person.