Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.