Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

If you were born by the sea, there's always a magnet that draws you back there.

As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

So often, the singer is the sound of the record. People think they can cover anything, but the whole voice is the thing that's unrepeatable.

I made a creativity out of that messiness.

I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.