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

In some ways, when you re-envision a song like that ["Never Be Mine"], there's a completely different energy to it each night.

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.

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

I saw Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which I thought was a masterpiece. Not that long ago, I listened to Blackstar by David Bowie and thought that was a masterpiece. Those are two incredibly talented people who've left their mark with us.

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.

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