You live and you learn.

Music can tear me up inside.

My mum wanted me to go to university.

It's always darkness before the dawn.

Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.

I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.

I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.

Worst nightmares can also appear with your eyes open.

I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.

It's hard to dance with a devil on your back, So shake him off...

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.

I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right.

Lay me down, Let the only sound, Be the overflow, Pockets full of stones.

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

I don't want your future, I don't need your past. One bright moment Is all I ask.

Love is horrible. I mean, when you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness.

If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that.

Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful.

In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.

I'm obsessed with choirs, and always have been, because of that sense of overwhelming vocals.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.

I like a house party and fancy dress, a big fan of fancy dress, like dress up, costume parties.

I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

You can forget anything, and actually being a part of a crowd, of a group, can itself be freeing.

I wish to remain nameless And live without shame 'Cause what's in a name, Oh I still remain the same

Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.

On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.

I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.

I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.

It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.

Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz.

You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

For me, ‘Dog Days’ symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed.

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