I'm not a downtrodden woman. I just won't be.

I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.

I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

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.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.