- “For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea”
- “I like a house party and fancy dress, a big fan of fancy dress, like dress up, costume parties.”
- “I’ll send myself into irrational spirals about things I have control over, like death.”
- “Worst nightmares can also appear with your eyes open.”
- “I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.”
- "Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful."
- "A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream."
- "I wanted to be a witch when I was a kid. I was obsessed with witchcraft. At school, me and my friends had these spell books; I always wanted a more magical reality. I had a shrine at home and I did a spell to try and make the boy in the other class fall in love with me."
- "Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you're just really miserable."
- "I don't see myself as possessed exactly, but I do feel sensitive to the past. To ghosts. It's like the photographs in my bedroom - all those people lived and died and one day so will we. Sometimes I can't quite get that out of my head."
- "I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you're being sucked down into the ocean and you can't breathe. It's something overwhelming and all-encompassing that fills you up, and you're either going to explode with it, or you're just going to disappear."
- "I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange."
- "I grew up in London really near a mental hospital... Which says a lot."
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