Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

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.

It’s hard to accept yourself as someone you don’t desire / As someone you don’t want to be.

I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.

I don't have much to complain about in life, because I've lived a very privileged existence and continue to. I just think, What if I didn't have that confidence or strength of character, and I was left with certain perceptions of what a woman's place is in the world?

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself - there's huge amounts of nonsense.