I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.

We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.

Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.

I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.

It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

I think soul is soul. I don't see new soul as any different to old soul.

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.