There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying.

You need to have a life outside your career.

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm always sticking up for other people.