I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.

I'm never happy with my face, my hair, I haven't really got any boobs and I'm not really that tall.

There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?

I'd hate it to become style over substance, I'd hate people to start putting me in a magazine article about my style. I don't like dressing up in something I'm not necessarily comfortable in just to make it more of a show. I want the power to come from what I sing about and how I sing.

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.