Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.

Surround yourself with friends who only call you a superstar

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different things.

Hope is such a powerful thing. We all have hope for different things, but I think sometimes we need to share our hope with other people. We're sometimes in our own issues, and it isolates us, but when we come together and encourage each other and give a little bit of hope, it can, like it says in the song, go a long way.

I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.