I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.

On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here.

I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.

You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.