Perspective Quotes

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

I don't feel connected to the whole vision of the record in the same way-it's got all these characters. The point of view of "Love Earth" and the point of view of "Break the Chain" are so different. It's not the same thing, but it is the same thing.

I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures. It's so awkward. It looks so cheesy.

I like being the girl nobody can have.

Music is the love of my life. It's a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpected and meaningful.

The biggest moments of insecurity come when all self-confidence is lost and you feel like people are watching and judging. It should be the opposite. You should feel like the people who are watching care about you. This is something we can try to give each other - the feeling that eyes signal support, not disdain.

Sometimes pop artists, it's all about clothes and pyro. My thing is about my band.

When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want to shake my ass, not 'cause "I'm dancing like a black girl!"

I didn't know that was me until we fucking cut the record! I just thought it was a guy who's got a weird English accent.

She wasn't a big impact on my life. It's just interesting to me how interested the world is about Taylor Swift. The reason I mention that is because if I had [properly] gone out with Taylor Swift, I would've been, 'F-king hell, I am not being Taylor Swift's boyfriend.' You know, 'F-k. That.' That's also a man thing, a demasculinating [sic], emasculating thing.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it.

Without geography you're nowhere.

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

I don't expect to make old bones, and what's more I don't really care.

The bigger the better; In everything.

My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.

I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.

You can do whatever you like with my image, my music, remix it, re-release it, whatever... just never make me boring.