Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

All I have to do is what's right for me.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.