Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.

I'm interested in a lot of different sounds and types of music.

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of the mirror and being silly, then suddenly I started making songs.

The classical music world is so snobbish.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.