I once said to a boy, ‘You’re a really good kisser,’ and he said, ‘You’re only as good as the person you’re kissing.' I think it’s the same with the music. If someone [says], ‘Your music is really provocative,’ I’m only as provocative as the person that’s listening to it.

When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something, they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.

I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite.

I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.

I hope to do a visual for every single thing, even if it’s as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.

I don't understand people's obsessions.

When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.

I'm a very free woman, and maybe freedom is erotic in that way. Maybe it's conceived of as something dangerous, and dangerous - in that creative and wild way - is sensuous and erotic. For me it's more about making what I feel, but there's always a reason, a level of integrity and classical expression in what I do.

We live in a very strange world where everything is so accessible if you like one song someone did, you can see what they ate for breakfast or what kind of sunglasses they wore.

I just try to keep my dignity and carry on with my day.

I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.

If I want to dress myself a certain way, I don't want to have to rely on someone else to do it for me.

The idea's the idea: It's about what you do, and not who you are.