Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.

You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.

Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.

Once you accept that we're all imperfect it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.

I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.