Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

I always feel there is a link between music and spirituality.

There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people's treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to.

What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people.

Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on.