I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the Cranberries and K's Choice.

I'm not going to say I'll never rock with a band, because I'm too much of a fan of the aesthetic of a great band. But a girl group? Not again.

I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child.

Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that.

At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.

I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.

I have been doing choreography my whole life, and it's so important to make that marriage between music and the body.

I've only covered a few songs because I feel that if you're not going to go beyond the original artist in some way, then don't disrespect what they created.

I've learned that you only become as creative as you possibly can by staying independent.

I always thought music was open to all things.

We get discouraged sometimes when people look at surface only and neglect the message.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.

Keep in mind the challenging fact that your aim is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself; to begin today to be the person you want to be.

Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim. (I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.) (Gilraen's linnod)

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

Even though I play guitar, I don't do it publicly.

Where I create, there I am true.

No matter what the circumstances of our death, we overcome the horrors of our lives and find peace at last.

I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.