I do a lot of cardio stuff at the gym for being on stage. I need to have the least amount of sweat to avoid patches. I eat healthily, a lot of fish and pasta. Breakfast is typically porridge and toast or sometimes a bacon and cream cheese bagel, but with the fat cut off. I eat anything and everything apart from beetroot and brussels sprouts. Beetroot reminds me of school dinners where they boiled it up and didn't season it with anything. It tastes like feet.

I've never been on a diet. I'm lucky to have a high metabolism. If I do put on some pounds, I just go to the gym for a week and it falls off.

I love skiing. I took my brother to the snowboarding festival in Austria a couple of years back. The whole dry skiing side of things doesn't do it for me. I've got to be out in the cold. My brother's a snowboarder and thinks it's the cool version. When he falls over it's not so cool.

On tour, you have onsite catering and it tends to be good food, but on the tour bus, the only food is from service stations. In Europe, I've noticed it's better, but here it's a diet of sandwiches and Pringles and fizzy drinks. I do stipulate in my rider fresh fruit and a case of beer for me and the band.

With drinking, it's a case of everything in moderation. Don't get me wrong, on a Bank Holiday weekend, friends and I will hit a couple of bars and clubs and have fun. But alcohol dries my throat. To drink alcohol before a show is not worth it because I can't perform to my best; afterwards, at the after-party, we'll have a few drinks.

I do vocal training, for endurance. Doing gigs five nights on the trot, your voice can get tired. It's a form of training I do with an American-based company who trained Stevie Wonder. So it is a worry but I'm doing all the right things.

I don't really get stressed. I'm a very calm, placid creature. When I'm on tour, I've got a tour manager there, so I don't have to deal with things that would annoy me. As far as workload is concerned, I'm just come back from touring in the US; next week I start the UK tour; and then I'm back out to Canada for some festivals. I think I'm quite lucky. If you look at people such as Joss Stone or Corinne Bailey Rae, with whom I've worked in the past, their schedule is Dubai, and then Melbourne, then LA, then Thailand: when do they get a chance to sit down? Obviously in one way that's great because it means they're really successful; I hope it will happen to me sometime.