I Believe That When You Have Fans,

If A Hundred People Want Autographs, Sometimes You Have To Say No Because You've Got To Get Up For A 4 A.m. Flight Or Something. In That Sense, It Really Pisses Me Off When People Think You've Become A Diva. It's Not Becoming A Diva, It's Because Of The Situation, I Think.

Some People Don't Have A Way Of That Catharsis And I Do, So I'm Lucky In That Sense That People Listen To My Songs And Enjoy My Songs. It's A Really Important Thing For Me, It's How I Channel Everything. I Don't Really Know What I'd Do If I Didn't Write Songs.

You Pick Up Loads Of Baggage With Your First Record With Reaction To It From Fans And Critics. So I Went To Ireland By Myself For A Couple Of Weeks With My Guitar. I Read Lots Of Poetry, I Read Patti Smith's Autobiography And Started Words And Phrases And Then Songs Started To Take Shape.

Every So Often I'll Go Back Down To Earth And I'll Make Reference To A Phone Or A House Or Something, Something That's A Bit More Real. But I Suppose What That Does, Is It Puts You In A Surreal Place But Also My Music Doesn't Get Too Carried Away In That Sense, Which I Quite Like.

America Saw Me As A Projection Of Me That I Always Wanted. Thats Why I Love Going To America So Much. I Feel Like I Started Off In America Exactly How I Wanted To Start Everywhere.