"I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style."

"I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might sound odd but a lot of good has come out of it. My fans send letters saying they have taken up jogging because I do it."

"I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or 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."

"The art of living is discovering that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art."

"It is a quiet truth that beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft."

"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."