I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.
Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?
I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.
I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.
I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.
I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.
I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.
I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.
When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.
People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.
From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.
I look a lot like my father and his mother.
I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
