My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.

All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.

I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

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.

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

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