You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

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 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 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.

I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right.

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 try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.