Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.

The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.

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 would love to record something with PJ Harvey or Alison Goldfrapp.