I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.

All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.

I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.

But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

I'm obsessed with choirs, and always have been, because of that sense of overwhelming vocals.