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

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.

I'm someone who has always been quite clear about what I like. In the studio, I'm not a control freak but I know what I want.

You learn that, when your children are all right, everything is right in the world.

Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky.

Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.