The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.

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 love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

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.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.

In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.