I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.
I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.
Never settle for anything less than you want.
There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
Shame is the shadow of love.
You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.
I'm always trying to swim to new ground.
The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.
I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.
I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.
I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
I see men come and go, but there'll be one who'll collect my soul.
People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am.
Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person.
Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
It's good to feel excited by the environment you're in.
What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.
I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.
I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong.
The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.
I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.
I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.
You know if I see a work that really I am very affected by and inspired by then it makes me want to try things with my work that maybe I hadn't considered trying before and I think that is the biggest complement that you can pay somebody.
I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
