“I don’t connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.”

I really like to please people, and I think it’s a symptom of being an only child.

I feel curious about every situation I’m in.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it’s about other people.

I lend people money, but I’d never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn’t get it back.

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

I vote Labour and can’t begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

I’m surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don’t have any problem telling me I’m acting like an idiot or I’m not that funny.

I’ve spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment.

I try not to brand myself ‘weird’ any more because it sticks.

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

Dressing up is like therapy; I feel better in myself when I’ve made an effort.

I don’t have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

I just have an inability to lie.

We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.

I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.

Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.

We are all connected; to each other, biologically. To the Earth, chemically. And to the rest of the universe, atomically.

Bajrang Bali worked to connect all Indian communities together, from north to south and east to west.

Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

It’s very hard to be an artist, on my first album, and I’m like asking for money for a music video for every song – it’s so hard to do. You have to pick your battles for sure, but I definitely want – and I’ve always worked to make it all connect – for all of it to feel cohesive.

It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.

We are happy that we could resonate with so many people.

It doesn’t matter to me how I look on screen. What matters to me is how I connect with the audience.

Nothing better than connecting with nature on a rest day.