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

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.

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

When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.

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've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

The stage is the place I feel comfortable - it's almost as if real life is where I feel most nervous. Conversations are a lot more nerve-wracking.

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

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

It's good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn't lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.

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

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

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

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

I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

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

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

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

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

It's not like you lose ... you just don't.. win.

I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.

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

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

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

My mum wanted me to go to university.

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

Music can tear me up inside.

What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.

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.

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

Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don't know ... It's like some kind of euphoria, that love can't bring to you.

If you see a river running smoothly, it's because someone has drowned in it, and if it's raging, it means that it's still got bloodlust.

I'm down to bleach my eyebrows again. I tell you what, though - that didn't go down well with my boyfriend. Girls love it. Guys, not so into it.

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

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

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

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

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

I can see the green light
I can see it in your eyes

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

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

The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.

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

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

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

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

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

When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.

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

I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.

I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

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

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

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

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

The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.

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

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

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

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

It's always darkness before the dawn

When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

Whispering like it's a secret, only to condemn the one who hears it, with a heavy heart.

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

Worst nightmares can also appear with your eyes open.

You live and you learn.