I've really come into my own as an artist. I'm much more sure of my identity and understand it much better, and have accepted the fact that I like to jump around a lot in terms of who I am and what kind of music I create, and that it is okay - in fact, that is my main identity, the fact that I do that.

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I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.

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makeup artist thinking

Fake it, fake your confidence until it's real. I think it's a good way to live most of your life.

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fake real thinking

I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how we behave? I'm interested in the role we all play. We spend our whole lives becoming ourselves when we are born as no one else.

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different identity play

There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently.

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particular thinking

When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.

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inward want love-you

Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything I stand for. And the point of introducing her and building a concept around her is that she stands for the corrupt side of American ideology, and basically that's the corruption of yourself. My worst fear - that's anyone's worst fear - is to lose myself and become an empty person. And that happens a lot when you're very ambitious.

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ambitious sides heart

My biggest fear is love and getting hurt in love but still believing.

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stills hurt believe

I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.

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harsh real want

Sometimes you feel amazing about life and other times you just feel fat and depressed, so I think it's good to be honest about that and to make light of it, I think humour is important, nobody's perfect.

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light perfect thinking

I think I actually did write about love because I kind of had a fear of it, like we all do, nobody wants to get hurt.

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hurt writing love-is

I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so I like kitten heels occasionally because I can move around a bit easier, but pointy-toed pumps are very elongating.

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pumps looks moving

I feel like artists that are always quite sad in real life always make really happy music, and artists who are really bouncy and bubbly always make really sad music.

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sad-music artist real

I quite like dark humor.

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dark-humor dark

You can’t have peace without a war.

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war

Drink to forget; don't forget to drink.

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drink forget

People are complex, and I think it's a huge element of what I do, because you have to balance out the fact that you talk about quite serious things with a sense of irony and tongue-in-cheek humor. That's my personality as well.

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personality people thinking

I'm obsessed with the mess that's America.

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mess obsessed america

That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.

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fit kind knows

If you believe something enough, it comes true eventually, and that's so true even with lies. If you tell yourself a lie, after a few years you'll think it's true.

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believe lying thinking

I don't really know how to live my life, just like lots of other people don't. I guess you just learn along the way.

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living-my-life people way