I always wear red lipstick.
Kate Nash
Hair is so important and emotional. I dyed mine black and blond after a breakup - there's something really powerful about changing your hair when you're in a weird place.
There were so many weird shows when we were younger. 'Clangers.' 'Button Moon.' 'The Moomins.' All very weird, but very cool too.
When I was young I was listening to the Spice Girls and Destiny's Child. I was singing 'Independent Woman' and 'Survivor,' and it was all about Girl Power and being with your friends. I don't think I was singing, 'Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?'
A woman's body and a woman's image is a very political thing, so I trust another woman to understand what that's like and how to portray it in a way people can relate to.
I can't even begin to grasp concepts like the multiverse.
Filming 'Glow' helped with my confidence.
I would say that I'm opinionated and clumsy and I am definitely led by my heart over my head.
Sometimes it's funny for me to just pretend I'm a movie character, and think what would you do if this was a movie? Or, what would you do if you were one of your icons?
I formulate my style based on a range of influences from books to films and my moods.
When I was younger, I'd always cry on Christmas Day, and I didn't know why. Now I know it's because I was just overwhelmed by the togetherness.
I have really bad anxiety and OCD. I get afraid of everyone I know dying.
I started my own zine, and riot grrrl became a huge part of my identity.
People are fragile. Our brains are fragile and you can only abuse them for so long.
When you're a woman, you have such a strange relationship with your body because - especially when you're in the public eye - you're constantly being judged.
People have said I'm too fat to be a pop star.
I got into punk at 17 after discovering an all-girl band from Long Island on the Internet called The Devotchkas - four crazy-looking girls with fast, driving basslines and high-pitched gang vocals who shared the same dress sense as the punks I used to eye up curiously in Camden.
A lot of men just don't understand what it's like to be a woman and how much our bodies mean and what they can be and how much power they can yield, and how much we're shamed for them.
Artists often have mental health issues. And their lifestyles are unstable because of all the travelling and the media commentary on their lives.
I like being girly. I used to wear jeans all the time and tracksuit bottoms but then I was like, really all I want to be like is Marilyn Monroe so why am I wearing these?
When we're in London my family goes to mass on Christmas Eve. The next day Dad cooks the turkey on the barbecue, standing outside in the freezing cold.
I'm worried about being pigeonholed as an artist, especially a female one, but I think, essentially, it's the music which people judge you by.
Simplicity is the key for me. I can't write clever songs; I just can't do it.
I'll always be playing shows. Even when I'm a crazy granny wearing weird old granny clothes and wandering around with dementia, I'll still be playing. Whether anyone else will turn up is another question.
I think Berlin is always inspiring. I love being in Berlin. It feels like such a cool city, with so much culture and art and independence everywhere.
I love skeletons and bones so much.
My biggest crush when I was 13 was Leonardo DiCaprio. After I watched 'Titanic' I was completely in love with him.
My mum's got morals and principles, and I've been brought up with those ideas and beliefs.
I grew up in Harrow, London, with two sisters. I am the middle child and a natural ginger, so fiery by nature.
The physical and the emotional are really connected. Although we know that, you kind of forget it.
I've a tiny little scar on my chin from when I fell over on stage, bust my chin open and bled everywhere.
I've always been really private.
The worst date I've been on was in L.A. with this guy I didn't want to be on a date with - he was just trying to take me to all these places and impress me but it was so cheesy.
If you're on an indie label, you're not getting enough money. And if you're on a major, you're not getting enough support.
I find it really easy to write on the bass, because you kind of get straight to the point: you do lyrics and melody without thinking about decorating the song until after you've finished it.
I had heart surgery when I was 17.
I once got asked in an interview: 'Does it annoy you that the majority of your fans are teenage girls?' I was insulted and angry because it was sexist and ageist.
I want to be in a Tarantino movie, more than anything in the world.
I love throwing parties and being sociable and dancing. But I also have this other homebody side and can become quite isolated and anxious.
On tour it's hard to be vegetarian, especially in Europe because vegetarianism is basically unheard of. They think you're either joking or mad.
Listening to Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna gave me the confidence I needed to get up on stage and be photographed every night on tour.
Even though I'm super into tarot and astrology, I don't believe in knowing too much about the future.
You have to be cynical because this is a business. Everyone is making money out of you.
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are the most wonderful creatures.
I just wanna be an artist, like someone like Bjork and Kate Bush and Regina Spektor. These are people that have saved people, I think, by being what they are.
Punk may have helped me find my voice and made me realise that I had the right to have one, but it was riot grrrl that helped me sustain that voice and shout a little louder.
I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like a poet.
I love 'Grace and Frankie!' Oh my God, it's the best show.
I first got into punk music at 17, The Adverts, just from being a bored teenager.
My parents would, like, argue in front of us and it wasn't a big deal, whereas I know some people's parents who, if they argued, it was like, 'Oh, my God.'
