I want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville.

There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently.

I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

Sometimes you feel amazing about life and other times you just feel fat and depressed, so I think it's good to be honest about that and to make light of it, I think humour is important, nobody's perfect.

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.

I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.

Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha!