You have to dare to totally be yourself and go 100% with your heart and guts.

I've always liked the idea of being different.

I think around 2015 and 2016 I ended up in an identity crisis, artistically. I didn't know what direction I was going in. I'm a perfectionist and I want to be truthful to my beliefs, if you know what I mean.

Owning flatware makes me feel like a grown-up. That and knowing that flatware is called flatware.

Not to be a bummer, but heartbreak is great for inspiration - we all know that - and it's really hard to write songs if I go through a phase where I don't feel much.

My parents would use all of their money for us to go new and exciting places, instead of a new television or a big car.

I was very ambitious in my dream of being a pop star.

I've always really liked the idea of an artist name, like a cover-up, even though in my music I'm being very personal in the stuff that I write about.

Back in the day I had a tendency to fall in love with people who were very challenging to be in a relationship with. But truth was I just loved the fire and the drama.

The thing I loved about my old punk band, it wasn't really about being vulnerable, it was about shouting and being fun and being aggressively political, which I thought was really cool and really fit that energy.

My music is about all these things that happen to you while growing up in search for some kind of truth.

I love to watch people not care too much about the choreography, or if they sing perfectly, or if the right label people are there to watch them. It's just about letting go and being crazy and engaging people in dance and madness - being a human instead of a doll.

I love those days when you get up super early and get stuff done.

You start off at an early age dreaming about love, but you have no idea how it will be.

The first song I ever wrote was called 'Because I Love You.' I was very inspired by the Spice Girls and they were singing about love and stuff and I was seven.

I do always like to sing Lana Del Rey, just because I know all her songs. But people at karaoke always want something up-tempo. Sometimes the energy level will change from 'party' to 'emotional,' which I think is great but some people don't.

I definitely think the best songs are written when you feel something strongly.

I've always wanted to make songs.

I'm such a pleaser - I want everyone around me to be happy - so it took a while for me to get to a point where I could say 'no, I need to be happy with everything that I put out.' I want it to be right.

Life was so easy as a child, maybe you fall over and you cry but you get back up again.

If you stick with one sound and one way of working, how will you ever progress?

I've been in many bands and every time I try to be a character that's not me it has failed miserably.

I really like FKA twigs. She's wonderful. She's so cool. Like, insanely cool.

I had never in my wildest dreams imagined that I would actually be singing on a top 10 Billboard song.