Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.

Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.