I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

There are lots of beautiful areas in England, and I am lucky enough to live in a stunning part of a very beautiful area.

Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit - and I never really grew out of that, I don't think.

I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.