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

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was really into witchcraft. I made mini shrines in my bedroom with candles and tried to cast spells to make the boy in the next class fall in love with me. I don't think he did.

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.

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

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

I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.