My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

The States were much more fun. L.A. was L.A. It's not L.A. now. L.A. infested with jaded 12-year-olds is not the L.A. that I really dug.

I've had many years to consider what I would like to see about a particular place. I don't waste any time and I enjoy it.

You have nothing. One should never allow themselves to think that they have, one can just touch - to have is to lack appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again.

Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss.

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

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.