I love words, I think they're fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I not only get to work with music but also with words. Sometimes it's a difficult process but a lot of the time it's really fun.

Artists shouldn't be made famous. They have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of money. And at the same time it is a forced importance... It is man-made so the press can feed off it.

When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

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

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

I'm always hunting and prowling. I'm sure Brian [Bath] was exaggerating!

I feel like I have to do some promotion to let the people know that the records are out there; but I kind of like the idea that it's my work that does the talking rather than me.