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 should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.

Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.

Let the little fairy in you fly!

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.