I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.

I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.

I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.

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've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.