I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough.

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

I don't come from an intellectual family.

Horrible things happen all our lives; we all experience loss and death and trauma. Usually, most people, I think, we just get on with it. We don't have a whole soliloquy in the middle of something.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

I was depressed at a very young age - mental illness runs in my family, especially on the female side.