I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

You can do too much and oversell your market.

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.

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

I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.