Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

I would never sit and write a song in front of anyone, because you're so vulnerable. I don't know at what point in the process that it becomes acceptable to pass them on. When a song wants to be written, it will be written. When it does come, I will very rarely go back and edit lyrics. I'm quite a rational human being, and the only part of my life that I can't rationalise, or can't make sense of, is how a song gets written or why.

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

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

In my experience, the psychological aspect of femininity tends to be more receptive and apathetic and delicate. I think that because the feminine is a bit quieter, we live in a masculine-dominated society. It is the front-forward force that runs the world. And that's not the fault of men by any means, that's just the way the world works.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.