When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.

Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.

I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

Worst nightmares can also appear with your eyes open.

You can forget anything, and actually being a part of a crowd, of a group, can itself be freeing.

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.