Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.
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.
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.
I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.