There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.

I suppose in some ways doing some of the songs in the show felt a bit like I was doing cover versions. I was covering myself. Not that they didn't feel like my songs, but the way I was approaching them was from a place so outside where they were written. The fact that these songs were in the context of a live show was a new thing.

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'.

You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.

Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.

However, if I ever were in a position to choose who would play me, I think I'd choose Johnny Depp.

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.