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" 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. "

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" You have to make sure you love what you do more than anything. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Someone will say, 'Shura's album is about being a gay woman in London.' Umm, I feel like my album's just about me. I am a gay woman, and I live in London... It's not about being a gay woman in London. "

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

" I'm 23, and if I wanted to release a record when I was 17, I could have released a record, but I'm really glad I didn't. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 'What's It Gonna Be?' is about having a massive crush on someone, so it made sense to go back where - to school, where it all began. But it was important for us to explore those archetypal characters - The Jock, The Nerd, The Dork, The Popular Kid - and then flip expectations. "

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

" 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. "

" If I fancy someone but can't tell them because I'm shy, I'll think, 'It's fine. You're not going to die. Maybe just tell them or whatever.' "

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

" 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.' "

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

" I felt that pop music didn't represent me. And that's why I made my own. "

" There's something about rhythm and bass sections generally, how the bass and drums interact, that's basically the soul of any song. "

" As I grew in confidence, I was able to come out and say that I'm a musician. "

" 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. "

" I love being in the studio. "

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