People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

I find it dull when my heart meets my mind

I remember my father playing me Same Situation when I was a nipper, and saying how nobody since has done melodies as well as Joni Mitchell. I concur. The thing that most affected me was just her resonance, and that is something she must have been born with.

My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

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