"I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black."

"I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general."

"You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents."

"Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep."

"Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts."

"The darkest nights often reveal that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger."

"The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?"