I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.

If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn’t just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life – no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don’t think that’s possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong.

I work on words quite separately to music. They’re both ongoing, and I don’t ever feel like I’m working in a cycle in that respect, because it’s every day anyway, no matter what I’m doing. Then I get to a point when I’ve collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

You know if I see a work that really I am very affected by and inspired by then it makes me want to try things with my work that maybe I hadn’t considered trying before and I think that is the biggest complement that you can pay somebody.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

I see men come and go, but there’ll be one who‘ll collect my soul.

I’m not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

I’m always trying to swim to new ground.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

It’s good to feel excited by the environment you’re in.

Never settle for anything less than you want.

Well, I’m quite a self-deprecating person.

I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.

People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that’s the complete opposite of who I am.

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.

I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I’m myself, and if I don’t, then I give nothing.