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

I'm not vanishing into thin air.

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

We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she's wonderful. I think it's the best thing that's happened to us in a long time.

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 desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

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.