I won't let anything destroy me.

Unzip my body, take my heart out

My fashion icons change regularly.

Ireland is a great place to be odd.

I've always been attracted to weirdos.

I'm not someone to sit on her laurels.

Music has given me a fantastic lifestyle.

Lyricism was placed into my head in Ireland.

I've worked all my life not to be a simpleton.

My uncle was a photographer for 'The Irish Times.'

I've seen massive changes in Ireland in my lifetime.

My father ruined me for men. Not many can live up to him.

One of my favourite books of all time is 'The Borstal Boy.'

I've only ever had surprises. My whole career's a surprise!

There'll always be a part of me that wants to remain mysterious.

It's a natural disposition for me to become muse-like in a relationship.

Being able to express yourself is one of the hardest things in the world.

I love Andrew Weatherall; he's so real and uncompromising and a sweetheart.

You've got to deal with the tools you have in hand. I'm a firm believer in that.

That's the good thing about pop. You can do whatever you like... it's a bendable medium.

I never said, 'Lady Gaga is a poor imitation of me.' That was a completely made-up quote.

I'm brave and fearless when I'm performing, but in real life, I'm actually quite prudish.

Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren't humorous, they are just crap.

I do come alive in front of a camera. The first video I ever made was a formative moment for me.

Timeless and unclassifiable - that's the goal. My oddness is the pursuit of this above all else.

I don't like to work with stylists - I find the relationship too intimidating - but I love fashion.

I am very attracted to funny people - I'd go so far as to say I find it hard to trust unfunny people.

My music's like waiting for a bus. You wait a long time for one, then a whole heap of them come along.

I have a little antennae, and even when I'm trying not to be, I'm connected with the bloody zeitgeist.

You can't get a better education in what it is to write songs until you listen to American soul music.

I've got crap teeth, crap hair. I never have facials. I still have hairs in the middle of my eyebrows.

Peggy Guggenheim is a real hero to have done what she did in a man's world, as the art world still is.

I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs.

I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.

Originally, I thought of being a photographer and nearly went to art school, but I got a record deal instead.

It's not nice to be called a nutter, because it dismisses the input I've had into my own destiny over the years.

If they were siblings, 'Hairless Toys' would be the nice child, and 'Take Her Up to Monto' is more of a problem child.

I feel more like an artist than a pop star, and I accidentally fell into what I do. Everything was just an experiment.

I don't have a personal stylist, because I don't need one. I just really enjoy meeting designers and picking up clothes.

The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something different.

I don't have any problems on social media. I have the most wonderful fans. I'm the luckiest girl in the world in that way.

At 16, I got housing benefit, and I had my own flat in an old woman's house. I was the only 16-year-old I knew living alone.

I just wouldn't enjoy standing there like a paper doll, having someone else stick paper dresses on me. That would be no fun.

I think I have an instinct of, like, the right record comes knocking at my door and says, 'Want to come out to play?' and I go.

I don't like permanency. I just like to slip and slide, and in identity, I think that's a very feminine artist's point of view.

I wasn't embraced as an Irish artist back in the Moloko days. Modern electronica isn't what you think of when you think of Irish music.

If I had gone to art college and everybody was being a conceptual artist, I probably would have wanted to be a portrait or landscape painter.

When I was 16 and on a tour of Europe, I fell in love with Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut chapel in Ronchamp, France. I'd quite like to live in it.

I respect Lady Gaga's work as an artist and as a fellow fashion icon. She is a very talented performer, playing the piano, singing live, and dancing, too.

Once I was embraced by gay culture, I finally started to feel I was fitting in. I was understood by those people in a way I had never predicted or courted.

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