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

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

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

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.

I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.

I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.