I'm quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.

Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.

I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world. Y'know, I'm a very strong person and I think that's why actually I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature'.

I feel like I have to do some promotion to let the people know that the records are out there; but I kind of like the idea that it's my work that does the talking rather than me.

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do with youth.

You have to try and embrace it all and everyone who represents that change because it is happening.