My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

I like living in the city, but I like being able to get out of it as and when I like.

Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.

I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It ruins a romantic idea, which might just be an illusion, a sense of depth or continuity. I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.