Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

What made it special made it dangerous, so I bury it... and forget.

I think what is great is that if anything that I do is interesting to somebody else, then I really don't think it matters at all what I had originally intended.

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.

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

You'll never know that you had all of me. You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.