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

Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.

I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.

I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.