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.

The female psyche is inherently self-sufficient, because female sexuality is inherently self-sufficient. I think women are maybe more comfortable, or women are able to find physical beauty in each other that doesn't terrify them.

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

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.

I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.

I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young.

Women are presented with a very narrow aspect of the female narrative. And now we live in a culture and a time where it gets to us very quickly and very young. So how do you maintain in a child that sense of unique identity before they get thrown all that is projected on them?