When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

The female psyche is inherently self-sufficient, because female sexuality is inherently self-sufficient. I think women are maybe more comfortable, or women are able to find physical beauty in each other that doesn't terrify them.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.