It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.

It's hard to dance with a devil on your back, So shake him off...

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

The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.

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.

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

The stage is the place I feel comfortable - it's almost as if real life is where I feel most nervous. Conversations are a lot more nerve-wracking.