I can't stand to hear my own voice. If one of my songs comes on in a café, I'll run out right away and come back with the police.

I'm very closed off when it comes to working with people, I'm very selective.

I can't stand to hear my own voice. If one of my songs comes on in a café, I'll run out right away and come back with the police.

I used to hate swimming at school so much that I would always sneak downstairs in the middle of the night and take my swimming costume out of my gym bag and hide it in the house somewhere. Then I'd never have to go swimming at school. This went on for months and I never got caught and my Mum turned into a nervous wreck because the thought she was losing her memory... and then one day she caught me and got super angry. That was kind of bad.

I started writing my own things when I was about 8. I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground. Then I realized, Oh god, my career's going nowhere, so I looked in the Yellow Pages and phoned up the first cheap studio that I found and started recording.

Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.

Fashion is meant to be wild and expressive. I love colour but I also love basics - grungy minimalism mixed with this kind of broken-down cheerleader, is my thing.