Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

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

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

I'm a perfectionist.

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.

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.

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

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.

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

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.

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.

I worry unnecessarily.

I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

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

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

I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

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.

Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.

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.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.