If I want to dress myself a certain way, I don't want to have to rely on someone else to do it for me.

When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something, they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.

I think 'fan' implies somebody who's submissive, sycophantic, in awe of everything you're doing.

When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.

I really keep my life very simple.

I'm a very free woman, and maybe freedom is erotic in that way. Maybe it's conceived of as something dangerous, and dangerous - in that creative and wild way - is sensuous and erotic. For me it's more about making what I feel, but there's always a reason, a level of integrity and classical expression in what I do.

The idea's the idea: It's about what you do, and not who you are.