I'm not image-obsessed.

I've never been a confessional writer.

My experience of being a singer and performer is there is something meditative and very positive about singing, just resonating the inside of your body.

Let's face it - the electric guitar is way sexier than the acoustic.

It's unacceptable to tour using non-environmentally friendly fuel when there are alternatives.

I don't let housekeeping in when I stay in hotels. It cuts down on all the caustic cleaning products and aggressive water usage, and I never use the little plastic bottles of toiletries they set out.

I always try to travel as light as possible. I feel really embarrassed having loads of luggage.

I've always tried to avoid music being direct therapy, and I've always found there's a power when you write something that can have its own interpretation - although I'm not being intentionally evasive.

I think there is optimism to what I write.

I've always felt at home in America. Obviously, there's down sides to everywhere - the politics of America can be hard to take but it's not great here either. I really love the country's landscape and I've travelled it many times.

But I'm pretty lucky with my voice. When I first started touring I went to see a woman to give me some coaching on how not to lose my voice. And she was just saying really your voice is a muscle so if you're using it all the time you should actually come back from tour with a stronger voice than you left with. And that's really how I find it.

You know there's this really strange mystique about Simon and Garfunkel, when they use the amazing mandolin and all the percussive stuff. It sometimes sounds very global.

I've never been one to indulge in out and out depression when it comes to songwriting.

If I can be somewhere with sunshine and have bare feet and a book, I'm happy.

Skiing fast feels like complete freedom to me.

I'd love to go to Easter Island, Hawaii, Iceland and Antarctica.

I've always been a huge fan of Beck.

Most of my friends in London are musicians, but the ones in Scotland have proper jobs.

I have always been a great fan of albums that are cathartic and that you can listen to them together and you can relate to them as a group of people or as friends.

When you make an album, you have to decide how much you want to give away; you have to decide how much you want to open up. Because the more you open up the more rewarding it can be but the more dangerous it can be. If you really open up and it gets panned it's really painful.

Like a lot of young people growing up in the middle of nowhere, I was desperate to leave my small town behind, but music reconnected me to my roots.

It strikes me as very odd for someone to think, 'You know what, if I put on a bikini, I may shift some more records,' but it happens. If people are comfortable with that, fine, but it's not something that would ever cross my mind.

I write songs, I play a guitar and that's it.

Sales have never been a source of joy for me in terms of my music. It's really about who's turning up at your shows, what people are saying about it.

I'm shocked at how much I can talk about myself.

It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out and play it.

I know it sounds weird, but the kind of music I write isn't the kind of music that I listen to, which is quite underground, left-of-centre stuff like PJ Harvey and Tom Waits.

My father had Parkinson's, though he actually died following a bicycle accident.

I used to take it much more to heart. Now I realise that negativity has almost everything to do with the person delivering it and very little to do with you yourself.

I believe that the Universe is like a single organism, and we are all little nerve endings feeding our experiences back into a whole.

I often talk too much and don't listen enough.

I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.

I had a job for a year, working in a high-quality whiskey-and-wine shop.

Criticism only hurts when there's some truth in it.

I've never considered myself a locked-down straight person. I've had relationships with girls.

Basically, my mum and dad bought me a CD player for my 14th birthday. They didn't really listen to music at all, but my dad had a couple of tapes that he'd listen to, like Tom Lehrer. My dad was a physicist and Tom Lehrer was like this really weird Harvard class professor, who was really cool because he was also a satirist and pianist.

Politics for me is when I feel a personal engagement between people: I don't trust politicians.

The only regular exercise I do is playing my shows, which are basically two hours of aerobics.

I've got my roots in Northern Ireland - my biological father's side of the family were from Belfast.

Don't try to fit in or stand out - just be yourself.

There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It's a unique experience and one that is so self-educating.

I'm happy, I feel I've married my best friend.

I admit that I am very possessive.

As a child working in films was like a hobby but now it has turned into a profession. And with that, it's become a life that's full of pressure and nervousness about Box Office results, competition.

Life was difficult for my family, as we didn't know where to go after leaving Kashmir. We settled down in Mumbai, in a suburb called Mira Road.

See, if there is zero possessiveness in a relationship, then one needs to put a reality check to see if things are really going fine. So, normally, everyone is a bit possessive, and so am I.

Soha is a very balanced and intelligent girl. She does advise me at times. We do discuss films but the decision rests with the individual. We are both strong characters and so at times our fights turn volatile. But me being a Gemini, I blow hot and cold, so I usually patch up in 10 minutes.

There have been films I have said no to and there are roles that I wish I had done.

Sometimes even if a common friend holds Soha's hand, I get jealous. But other days, she can go out for dinner and dancing with someone and I wouldn't think much about it.

As an actor you get to play different roles and genres. I feel that it pleases and satisfies me to do different genres as it can get repetitive.