I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life.

In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.

Here am I. I'm 38. My career's probably never been better. And I've made a decision which may or may not impact on it - I refuse to hide my experience and my age, as if it's something I should be ashamed of. I'm alive. I know lots of people who've never been lucky enough to get to this stage in their life. And I'm not gonna hide it for anybody.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

We should never listen to our feelings. They lead us astray.

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.