Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very – for want of abetter word – sophisticated classical piece as much as you enjoy something that’s very simple pop.
For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you’ve got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It’s always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.
I think in some parts of our English history we’ve had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.
The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn’t really sure that I could better them – I don’t know if I have bettered them.
When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs – I’d write one or two a night. It was my hobby. At some point, it then became a process that was mainly done within the context of the studio, and writing became part of the recording process.
Mozart didn’t have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job.
I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper...
My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that’s how I’ve always liked to work.
To say that you like music is a bit like saying youlike the whole world.
I think quotes are very dangerous things.
Don’t ever think that you can’t change the past.
My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.
After I’ve done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that’s whereI write from. I’m a sort of quiet little person.
School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.
Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.
We let it in, we give it out, and in the end what’s it all about? It must be love.
I feel like I have to do some promotion to let the people know that the records are out there; but I kind of like the idea that it’s my work that does the talking rather than me.
Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.
I wasnt an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.