I was in the playground, like, 'Let's imitate the Spice Girls and form a girl group!' I would go home and sing into my hairbrush and act like Britney Spears. I was no Mozart.
I was only 14 when I started playing the east London rave scene. At the time, I was so captivated by everything. I didn't ever wanna progress out of that scene.
When I was younger, I was a rave kid trapped inside a singer/songwriter's body. But I kind of figured my way out because I started making these really terrible beats on this Yamaha keyboard that my parents got me for my 10th birthday.
I like working really fast. The best ideas are the first ones that come into your head - so why bother thinking of any more?
I made video art for quite a long time, and I made this video covering myself in burgers and dancing to Major Lazer and doing covers of Britney Spears songs... I can't remember how I got there, but my teacher said he'd have to fail me because it had mild nudity.
I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.
My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
Pop music is getting so emo. It's great. Emotional girl for life. I see myself in the centre of that.
If there's intelligence behind an opinion, then I'm all for expressing it, but I would never just start a fight with someone for the sake of it - that's just not me.
I believe I deserve everything that could maybe happen. And I don't think that's a cocky thing to say because I've worked really hard, and I've never bitten the hand that fed me, and I've always been really respectful.
I used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care.
Most of my youth I spent being obsessed with Baby Spice, so she was my favorite for a really long time. Now that I'm older, I actually really like Posh Spice the best. Nineties Victoria Beckham is perfection, I think.
I'm actually really bad at the Internet. I'm never scouring it to find new artists or new anything.
You can't like everything! You hate some stuff! Say what you hate! Like, I hate Pitbull, and I don't care!
The fashion of the '90s is a massive inspiration to me. My favorite video of all time is 'Say You'll Be There' by the Spice Girls. That's the best styling ever. If I could dress like that every day, I would.
I'm very selfish in that I make music for myself, not for other people; I kind of only think about other people afterwards when it's out.
I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.
I know when I've written a good song when I can imagine the video. If I can't imagine the video straight away, I'm not gonna put it on my album.
I think that U.K. audiences, in general, are very closed off. Very judgmental.
I always Google myself. It's horrible.
