It's not very often that I like new bands.

My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.

My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.

When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.

When I'm passionate about something, I just get excited.

You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.

You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.

Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.

I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.

I'm a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak.

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists.

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.

There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.