I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.

I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I've inherited both sides.

I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for immediate gratification.

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

But I don't like working on lyrics publicly in the studio - I prefer to take them away and work on them in my bedroom.

I didn't feel so great when I was a teenager, but who does?

I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.