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.

I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

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

I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.

On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.

Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful.