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.

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

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

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.

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.

I don't understand people's obsessions.

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.

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.

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

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.