What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.

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 like a house party and fancy dress, a big fan of fancy dress, like dress up, costume parties.

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 I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in ­pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'