I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.

I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.

I personally don’t have the ability to lie about my life, for better or for worse.

Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.