With some of the songs, we brought the pitch down to alto.I'm older, so naturally my voice is lower now.

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits of inspiration floating about and grab them.

Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

The whole positioning and atmosphere of the song ["King of the Mountain"] was to build up this thunderstorm that would take us all onstage off into a story where we were suddenly in the middle of the ocean.

I will say it is great to have a woman in charge of the country.

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.