Being a chef would be too much hard work.

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.

In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.

I'm the messiest person I know.

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

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.

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.