I think hype is a good thing. You need it and it'll teach you valuable things and you'll grow stronger, which is what I've done.

I feel like sometimes I'm so positive and sometimes I think the worst of everything or I think the worst is going to happen. It's how I deal with stuff day-to-day, it's just how I get by really, and it's probably not the best way to be.

It's so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone.

You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.

I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.

Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.