Fake it, fake your confidence until it's real. I think it's a good way to live most of your life.

I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how other singers do it.

I'm vulnerable, I'm vulnerable. I am not a robot.

I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything I stand for. And the point of introducing her and building a concept around her is that she stands for the corrupt side of American ideology, and basically that's the corruption of yourself. My worst fear - that's anyone's worst fear - is to lose myself and become an empty person. And that happens a lot when you're very ambitious.