I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

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 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.

My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.

I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.

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