All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.

My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.