Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

My whole life has been a bit like a Nintendo game.

I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.

I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity.