It's always the goal to come out and win. The field is definitely improving. I mean, all across the world, every country has more and more women each year, and the competition level is so much higher. On any day, anybody can win.

I just tried to focus on what I really needed to do. I haven't been feeling too well lately, but it worked out.

Fools-to-free-the-world, they go, Primeval hearts from Buffalo. Red cataracts of France to-day Awake, three thousand miles away, An echo of Niagara The cataract of Niagara.

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest

The festival has grown again since last year. This year they added a ninth stage - the BBC Radio 3 World On Your Street Stage, to one side of the main arena. This was planned to be a little booth for 200 people but ended up being a club-sized sound system that drew up to 2000 people.

It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.