I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.

Nikki Lamborn has the best female rock voice since Janis Joplin and I know what I’m talking about, I knew Janis.

I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

My place, your place, slapped face, rat race.