Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

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.

One woman I interviewed, Amanda Ghost, said, "Let's not bullshit, there are no women at the top of the music business, and that is a serious problem." And I said, "Yes!" And I didn't shy away from saying that. But I still don't want to be in the firing line. I'm not clever or witty or brave enough to get into the political nitty-gritty with it.

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.

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