Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.
People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.
I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.
I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.
I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.
Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.
It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.
I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.
I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.
