I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.

What I want to do, I do! I'm pretty fortunate.

When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.

And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.