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I don't care about awards. I want to make money. I want to own a business.

When you're doing a job, you go out there and do it to the best of your ability and you don't think about awards and things like that.

Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.

I feel very lucky that I've been able to carve out any niche at all in this business. It's so hard to get into.

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.

Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.

I do want to sell as many records and win as many awards as I can. The awards though, they don't necessarily determine if you're good or not. I know that now.

I don't want awards. I am not saying this like it's a case of sour grapes. It isn't. I have been to a couple of award functions, and I soon realised that it doesn't give me the kick that it does to others.