- I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.
- I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
- Hype is scary.
- Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing.
- Sometimes I dress like what I want for lunch, because all I can think about is having a tuna sandwich.
- I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.
- When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
- We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.
- Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
- Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
- As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in my room, it was like putting myself in a trance, and making myself feel good about things, almost like a private ceremony of begging people to like you.
- The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
- New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
- When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to kind of place you.
- My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.
- In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.
- A stylist might say you look amazing in anything. Your family will always tell you if you look a complete idiot.
- I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
- You can't believe the amount of speculation you get over your private life.
- I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.
- It's very hard to find men's clothes that do what you want, especially when you go through them as quickly as I do. I need them to be flashy, but I never like to be overdressed. I need to make a statement, but I hate wearing too many clothes.
- I'm not creating an enigma or leaving mystery, I'm just respecting myself enough as an artist to give myself room to grow and not to be devoured all in one go.
- I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.
- Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
- The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.
- I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
- I lack trust in others.
- I was born out of classical music.
- If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I put a tiny piece in a bottle with a label. I keep them in a fridge in my bathroom.
- In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.
- They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist.
- I was always told I was ugly. I still think I am ugly. I know I've got an odd face and you can't tell me otherwise.
- Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.
- I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.
- I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?
- Everything I write is about me.
- Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.
- Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.
- You can't deny your limitations.
- My relationship with my mother is not cute.
- I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
- I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
- I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.
- I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.
- I collect toys.
- Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
- The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.
- Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.
- In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
- I've never, ever labeled myself.
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