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.

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.

If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that.

I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.