I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world. Y'know, I'm a very strong person and I think that's why actually I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature'.

School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.

You have to try and embrace it all and everyone who represents that change because it is happening.

It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding.

I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when - but just saying it could even make it happen.

For "Running Up That Hill" we had worked with a drum machine [in 1985]; the basic rhythms of "Running Up That Hill" happened because the whole track was built on a drum machine.

I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.