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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
- Birthday
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
- Black Hole
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
- Art Student
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
- Compromising
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of those people that is up for most things. When I was offered to sing at the Oscars I was like, 'Yeah, I want to know what that's like!' I'm always curious to know what things are like - as long as you're not compromising who you are.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum wanted me to go to university.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.
- Energies
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've built my wardrobe color palette around red, so I'm happy with it, but I do get pangs when I see beautiful brunettes. I've already been blue, green, black, and blonde.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that dress to just go out and buy a pint of milk if they would lend it to me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really careful with what the music gets put with, and we say no to so much stuff, loads of it, for things that might quadruple the sales of my album. But if it doesn't fit then it doesn't fit, you know?
- Florence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
- Style
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue - it kind of was all over the place.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
- Goth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was really into witchcraft. I made mini shrines in my bedroom with candles and tried to cast spells to make the boy in the next class fall in love with me. I don't think he did.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020