I wanted to find people who were like me, and I did, in the people I was reading.
I appreciate my city very much. When I go to America and Europe, and I tell everyone I'm from London, I'm proud.
In this life, I've learned to be patient. And I'm still learning... Even now, I wish things would go quicker.
When I think about Edmonton, Silver Street and Pymmes Park, the old people whose faces are so unhappy, it pushes me to be better. I want to be better to help places like this.
It's amazing how people believe you if you use long words.
People say my world is dark. No, there's a lot of lightness in my world. But I know very well that I'm not normal when I'm performing.
I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.
Because I didn't think anyone would actually listen to my music, I thought I could say whatever I wanted.
I personally wouldn't want my second album to sound like my first; it might sound very rocky or hard rock - and that wouldn't be melancholy. So if people think my music is melancholic, then so be it. It's meant to be uplifting, and I'm just basically saying what needs to be said.
If you live in central London, that's probably fine for you, but in places like Edmonton, where you're almost out of sight of London, you've got to pay more and more to get into central London. How does that work?
