A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

By being vulnerable, either with yourself or in the presence of another person, that’s where all growth and ultimate well-being comes from.

Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent - and I can't really complain because I'm sort of bourgeois and affluent myself, but I like living in a place where artists and musicians and writers can actually pay the rent.

For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.