My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.

I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time.