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" I read interviews saying women can bring a femininity to a song, a delicacy, but some women make really aggressive music. "

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" After putting out songs with 26 million views on YouTube, your life changes a little bit. Suddenly everyone's like, 'Where's the album?' "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I'm massively inspired by Janet Jackson, and I adore Whitney Houston and Madonna. "

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

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

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

" There are two ways of dealing with being odd. One is to really try and conform, and the other is to do the opposite and really make a thing out of it. At school, it wasn't that I was bullied, but everyone was very aware that I was different. I was kind of the token weird person that people accepted into their group, almost like an accessory. "

" My dad used to do a lot of music when he was young, so he had an 8-track MiniDisc recorder, and when he realized that I was getting on with it, he brought it upstairs to my room and showed me how to record and how, once you finished eight tracks, you can cut it down to two and have another six tracks to play with. "

" 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. "

" 'Nothing's Real' is about my first-ever panic attack, which I had about four months after getting my record deal. "

" I love PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Pixies, Portishead, and Massive Attack: a lot of what I would describe as alternative and indie music. "

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

" 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. "

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

" From collaborating with other people, you make concessions, and those concessions are great because sometimes you are definitely wrong. "

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

" There's a part of me that's ambitious. "

" I got this advice that if you know a panic attack is happening, just sit back and go, 'Okay, this is happening to me, but it'll be over. You'll be fine. You'll live.' "

" I'm massively inspired by 'True Blue'-era Madonna, but she is absolutely confident and in control of the situation. "

" People like Prince or Madonna, they're kind of superhuman. You can't imagine them burning their toast, and there's something really exciting about that. "

" Pop music for introverts is an idea I wanted to explore. "

" Do stuff that is true to your own experiences. "

" It's just as important - if not more important - to take the praise with a pinch of salt, just as you do the criticism. "

" You have to challenge yourself about the choices you make as an artist. "

" I didn't fit in on my football team; I was always the odd one out. "

" 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. "

" It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping. "

" I love scarves and hats and coats. I love it. "

" If you told teenage me that I would end up supporting Tegan and Sara for a month in North America, my head would have probably exploded. "