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I don't hate my voice. I'm just not an Adele.
I love scarves and hats and coats. I love it.
Do stuff that is true to your own experiences.
I'm actually really impressed with everyone at Polydor.
Pop music for introverts is an idea I wanted to explore.
You have to make sure you love what you do more than anything.
I didn't fit in on my football team; I was always the odd one out.
You have to challenge yourself about the choices you make as an artist.
I couldn't be a Taylor Swift. I would really suck at being Taylor Swift.
I felt that pop music didn't represent me. And that's why I made my own.
It is important that you're out, and it is important that you're visible.
I'm a bit of a geek: I just love being able to play with dials and buttons.
Producing albums is 100 per cent where I would love to be, later in my career.
I don't care about how many records I sell, but the main thing is people like it.
I'm massively inspired by Janet Jackson, and I adore Whitney Houston and Madonna.
It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping.
When I wasn't working, I was learning how to use production software on YouTube and making music.
I'm a lesbian. That's how I identify myself, but I think there's a massive spectrum for everyone.
One of the amazing things about pop is that it's there to make people feel confident and empowered.
Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out.
I'd love to sing with so many people, but my biggest dream would be to sing on a record with The National.
'Nothing's Real' is about my first-ever panic attack, which I had about four months after getting my record deal.
Is the mainstream becoming more queer? Or is it the opposite? That artists like me are mainstreaming queer music?
I'm massively inspired by 'True Blue'-era Madonna, but she is absolutely confident and in control of the situation.
The best thing you can do is having to say no to putting out something that's good, because everything else is better.
It's just as important - if not more important - to take the praise with a pinch of salt, just as you do the criticism.
I've tried writing darker, more serious songs, but they don't go anywhere. Everything revolves around the chorus for me.
I'm 23, and if I wanted to release a record when I was 17, I could have released a record, but I'm really glad I didn't.
I read interviews saying women can bring a femininity to a song, a delicacy, but some women make really aggressive music.
When you have a lot of gay friends, you don't think of that as being different or divisive or weird; that's just your reality.
I found my own voice slowly. I don't do big tricks like Mariah Carey, so I've found this weird way of singing that works for me.
It was never like I had to go, 'I am gay.' Slowly, almost by osmosis, by the way I was behaving, it became obvious and accepted.
I was obsessed with 'The Lion King' as a kid, and I really wanted to go work in an animal sanctuary and have my Lara Croft moment.
It's really weird when you realize the people you look up to - who have influenced or inspired you - start to realize what you do.
There's something about rhythm and bass sections generally, how the bass and drums interact, that's basically the soul of any song.
I love PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Pixies, Portishead, and Massive Attack: a lot of what I would describe as alternative and indie music.
From collaborating with other people, you make concessions, and those concessions are great because sometimes you are definitely wrong.
After putting out songs with 26 million views on YouTube, your life changes a little bit. Suddenly everyone's like, 'Where's the album?'
If you told teenage me that I would end up supporting Tegan and Sara for a month in North America, my head would have probably exploded.
If I fancy someone but can't tell them because I'm shy, I'll think, 'It's fine. You're not going to die. Maybe just tell them or whatever.'
I suffer from imposter syndrome all the time. Even if I'm just at a party, I'm thinking people are going to find out that I'm really boring.
I want to explore my boundaries. I want to push myself and go right to the edge of what I am capable of. I don't want to ever be comfortable.
I made the decision that I could either go outside in the freezing cold in the wind and rain and get muddy or just stay inside and be a rock star.
Whilst the Internet is amazing, someone with a laptop can make something amazing and send it out, but you grow up creatively in a very public way.
With 'White Light,' I had just finished watching 'Under the Skin' and was really obsessed with the idea of science fiction presented as normality.
Sometimes we feel like we're only interacting with what's already happening; we don't actually affect anything - sometimes I feel like that, anyway.
I really want to continue what I've already started with found sounds, but start borrowing from my past as well, so that it really spans me growing up.
For me, one song is not enough to be in a person's world. I need to be in their world for 40 minutes; I want to fully experience it and immerse myself.
People like Prince or Madonna, they're kind of superhuman. You can't imagine them burning their toast, and there's something really exciting about that.
I love camping, everything about it - tents, the camping stove, sleeping bags. I'm obsessed with technology, be it synthesizers and speakers or tents and Gore-Tex.