I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.

At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.

I like to make people dream and think and imagine and learn and study. Nowadays, music is so literal - it's telling you, "This is how it is," and my music's the opposite. I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know.

Even in independent music, people push towards radio. It is very political.

I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child.

I'm not going to say I'll never rock with a band, because I'm too much of a fan of the aesthetic of a great band. But a girl group? Not again.

We get discouraged sometimes when people look at surface only and neglect the message.