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" At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage. "
Beginning
Think
Weird
" Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving. "
Dance
Moving
Performance
" But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes. "
Character
Music
Reading
" 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill. "
Play
Dog
Voice
" During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression. "
Yourself
Moment
You
" Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people. "
Me
Fear
Feel
" Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing. "
Growing Up
Dream
People
" I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline. "
Always
Feel
Me
" I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits. "
Sound
Man
Tom
" I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody. "
Ancient
I Am
London
" I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy. "
Bad
Think
Healthy
" I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be. "
Worry
Wait
Stage
" I definitely have a real self-destructive streak. "
Self-Destructive
Real
Streak
" 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. "
Songs
Music
Right
" I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear. "
Art
Hype
Music
" I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things. "
Happy
Want
People
" I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was really into witchcraft. I made mini shrines in my bedroom with candles and tried to cast spells to make the boy in the next class fall in love with me. I don't think he did. "
Hair
Love
Black
" 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. "
Me
Good
Want
" I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person. "
Intense
Most
Person
" If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious. "
You
Hair
Hide
" I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do. "
Sister
Time
She
" I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed. "
Day
Stage
Name
" I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free. "
Yourself
Run
Time
" I like the idea of taking off like a bird. "
Bird
Taking
Off
" I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady. "
Lady
Clothes
I Am
" I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right. "
Feel
Right
Jeans
" I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music. "
Big
Rap
Love
" I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance. "
Performance
Rain
Know
" I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you. "
Love
You
Throw
" I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong. "
Gone
Girl
Desperately
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