"I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her."

"'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good."

"I'd like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something."

"You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape."

"Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist."

"The silent observer understands that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

"Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art."