I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.

What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.

Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.

Everyone’s competing for a love they won't receive.

I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.

With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.