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.

I'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

I know now that it's really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.

I only know how to do me, so that's just what I'm going to do.

Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.

Everything I do, I do it for somebody I've never met before, something in the great beyond. That's my primary relationship, really, is with something divine. I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth.