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" 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. "

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" I think it's much harder now with the Internet to hone anything. It's easy to share things: you do one track, and it goes on Hype Machine; people are being exposed a lot earlier. "

Shura

Internet

People

Think

" I don't hate my voice. I'm just not an Adele. "

" I started playing when I was about 13, mainly because Dad had guitars lying around the house. My dad taught me my first three chords, and I taught myself from there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Shura

Feel

Affect

" With 'White Light,' I had just finished watching 'Under the Skin' and was really obsessed with the idea of science fiction presented as normality. "

" Perhaps a young boy or girl, after watching my video, can go, 'Maybe I don't have to be embarrassed. Maybe I can come out at school, maybe I can tell my best friend... and maybe I don't have to be afraid anymore.' "

" Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out. "

" It is important that you're out, and it is important that you're visible. "

" 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'm a bit of a geek: I just love being able to play with dials and buttons. "

" I'm really freaked out by time. How, for instance, what I did last week is not real in the sense that it's happened. It's just a memory that's filed away in my brain. "

" When I wasn't working, I was learning how to use production software on YouTube and making music. "

" 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. "

" I think there's something antagonistic about bedroom pop. We're reappropriating pop and saying you don't have to be an ex-Disney star to make pop music. You can be from Shepherd's Bush and have spent most of your life listening to the Smiths and still make a pop record. "

" 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. "

" Is the mainstream becoming more queer? Or is it the opposite? That artists like me are mainstreaming queer music? "

Shura

Opposite

Music

" 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'm a lesbian. That's how I identify myself, but I think there's a massive spectrum for everyone. "

" 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. "

" I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time. "

" The best thing you can do is having to say no to putting out something that's good, because everything else is better. "

" I've had relationships before where you break up, and you think you're going to die, and then you realise you're definitely not going to die, and actually, you're probably better off without them. "

" In London, I used to play 'Boys of Summer,' but it didn't feel right, because it doesn't apply to your surroundings, to the weather. I remember being in L.A. and listening to that record and going, 'Oh, I get it now.' "

" A lot of people think I popped out of some pink cloud fully formed, ready for action, but I've been putting songs on SoundCloud since I was 16. Five people would listen and like them. I never had any expectations for myself. "

" I know I don't suck at being me. I'm really good at being me. "

" I'd love to sing with so many people, but my biggest dream would be to sing on a record with The National. "

" Producing albums is 100 per cent where I would love to be, later in my career. "

" To go from someone who would put something on SoundCloud and maybe get 15,000 plays in a year to getting 100,000 plays in one day felt very weird. I thought I was dying. "