I've always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much. Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things. I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents.
I don't know why. I just went for books all the time. It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head. By the time I got writing 'Halcyon,' I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write about, I realized I had so much built up inside that I couldn't really alleviate before, and then all of a sudden it was like reservoir burst.
Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back! I'm a bit grungy - I love wearing boots. But I also love putting on a beautiful white dress and jewels. I have those two alter-egos. My voice has been very, very produced, and very treated - but then, also, it hasn't.
You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents. I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why.
I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room. There are plenty of bands who never get in the charts and it doesn't mean that they're not any good. Actually, a lot of the top ten is filled with stuff that just sounds the same. I could guess what's in there now - probably a bit of GaGa, Beyonce and some U. The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out.
As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone. Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever. As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth.
It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes. I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example.
You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve. On stage I have to be comfortable because I play guitar so I can't wear too much jewellery, it knocks against the guitar and makes loud noises. I had this big gold eagle necklace which I love but I kept whacking myself in the face with it so had to stop wearing it. I wear things that I can sweat in, basically I guess I started running when I was about 18 and I feel like it assists my creativity a bit because it completely just flushes everything out.
I started getting these attacks in , just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks. Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do. I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do.
Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet.
Maybe I should open a shop. What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally. I think hype is a good thing. You need it and it'll teach you valuable things and you'll grow stronger, which is what I've done. You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics.
So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape. I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university. I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age.
I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum. Because I've always been a runner I love to feel that my body is shining on the inside. I wear baggy clothes, so it's not as though I like showing it off.
I just like to know I'm great on the inside. It's easy to get into the habit on tour. There's so much waiting around, so many opportunities to smoke. I've stopped now - but I still love a drink. Gwen Stefani has amazing style. I used to really love Courtney Love, and anything she wore I loved. I wear hats a lot, too.
I think it goes back to when I was a bit grungy and was a skater girl for a bit. Bjork, I'd love to do something with her. I'd love to do some sort of crazy orchestral choir thing with her. I never thought I'd say the sentence 'It was a real honour' - because that implies that you've done something pretty special. But now I've done that several times. I never thought I'd do something like that.
I used to make my manager Jamie not tell me where I was going to be the next day, because I was so afraid of flying and of anything. But now I love flying, I love working hard, I love being around the world. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore.
I was just sad and just felt like something was missing. I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head. I'd like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something. America saw me as a projection of me that I always wanted. That's why I love going to America so much. I feel like I started off in America exactly how I wanted to start everywhere.
I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house.
She was well into music so I got that from her. I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else. I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.
I feel like my figure is a challenge because I'm quite flat chested but I've got a booty so I've got to look for the right things.
For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good. It's so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone. I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani.
It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style. I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might sound odd but a lot of good has come out of it. My fans send letters saying they have taken up jogging because I do it. But eventually I found my own voice. I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.
Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it. I still don't know if I can write songs.
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