I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.
If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship, I don’t think that’s necessarily being anti-feminist. For me the argument of feminism never really should have come into the picture. Because I don’t know too much about the history of feminism, and so I’m not really a relevant person to bring into the conversation. Everything I was writing was so autobiographical, it could really only be a personal analysis.
I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable.
I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them
I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about.
I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.
The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind.
I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide.
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.