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One time, I gave Chris Martin a My Little Pony for good luck. He said, 'Oh, you should keep it,' but I was like, 'You guys probably need it a lot more than I do.' I said that to Coldplay!
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I've actually done a cover of 'Train in Vain' by The Clash with Viv Albertine - which was originally written about her.
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I feel like I'm a pop star without being a diva.
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To be honest, for me, my main workout is when I'm on stage. Even though I make pop music, I don't think I perform in the classic 'pop star' sort of way. I'm very active on stage; I always end up dripping in sweat afterwards. It's always like a full-on, wild performance, so that's pretty much like my exercise, I would say.
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On my first album, I felt like, if it was going to be turned into a movie, it would have been directed by Sofia Coppola. She creates this kind of pastel-colored palette that's very whimsical but also very stagnant. And that's really how I heard the record.
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I don't think that I'm a pop star. On paper, I'm bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.
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I'm lucky I have really cool parents.
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I like working really fast. The best ideas are the first ones that come into your head - so why bother thinking of any more?
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Pop music is getting so emo. It's great. Emotional girl for life. I see myself in the centre of that.
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When you're growing up, I think there's this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But I've come to realize that isn't cool.
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I think that U.K. audiences, in general, are very closed off. Very judgmental.
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Most of my favorite artists are strong females.
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It's kind of weird talking about yourself all the time.
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My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.
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I'll listen to 3 artists on repeat for more than a month.
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I've always played it my way. I failed media training, for example.
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Anyone that thinks 'pop' is a dirty word is living in the '90s.
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One thing I don't understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that's terrible and boring.
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I feel like when people meet me, I'm very much not what they expected I would be. I'm not a diva, and I'm not mean to people or have weird rules.
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I know when I've written a good song when I can imagine the video. If I can't imagine the video straight away, I'm not gonna put it on my album.
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I always think about fashion when it comes to making music and music videos... what the colours will look like, what the material will be, how will it work with the sound of the music.
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I spent a lot of my teenage years experimenting with who I was as a person and not really getting it right. And then, I think, I realized that I just had to chill out in life.
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I love In-N-Out!
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I was never the cool kid in school, and loads of people told me that I was weird, that I dressed uncool and did uncool things, that I was too nice, too happy.
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