I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.

There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.

I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.