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I really keep my life very simple.
I don't understand people's obsessions.
I just try to keep my dignity and carry on with my day.
I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.
The idea's the idea: It's about what you do, and not who you are.
I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
I want people to see what's inside my head rather than just looking at me.
I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite.
If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.
I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.
I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.
I think 'fan' implies somebody who's submissive, sycophantic, in awe of everything you're doing.
I don't think it's realistic for someone to have an undying loyalty to everything you ever make.
If I want to dress myself a certain way, I don't want to have to rely on someone else to do it for me.
I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else.
It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the fluff words.
I hope to do a visual for every single thing, even if it’s as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.
When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.
I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.
What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?
I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.
I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.
I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'
Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.
I don’t know if I’m a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, ‘Mum, it hurts.’
I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.
I'm a little bit older, I've traveled the world, spent lots of time in New York and Paris and lots of inspiring places, and I still feel alien.
A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.
Being beautiful isn't everything... Sometimes it's interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself.
Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine.
Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
I've lived in the same place in London for the last seven years, I go and get my shopping, I get on buses, and [all the rest] is pretty much outside of who I am.
I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to shut up and take time to respect the vision someone put into a book.
We live in a very strange world where everything is so accessible; if you like one song someone did, you can see what they ate for breakfast or what kind of sunglasses they wore.
I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.
I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.
It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.
I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.
Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
Half of my life I’ve had people staring at me because they think I’m funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life I’ve had people staring at me because they think I’m fascinating. Everything neutralises
I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.
In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.