Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.

I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.

Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.