I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.

Einstein said 'your imagination is more important than intelligence,' and I have a very, very big imagination.

The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind.

Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it.

If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship, I don’t think that’s necessarily being anti-feminist. For me the argument of feminism never really should have come into the picture. Because I don’t know too much about the history of feminism, and so I’m not really a relevant person to bring into the conversation. Everything I was writing was so autobiographical, it could really only be a personal analysis.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.