Natalia Kills

“I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.”

“I didn't really like being on television at all.”

“Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.”

“I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.”

“My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.”

“I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.”

“My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.”

“I love Audrey Hepburn, early Brooke Shields, and Madonna's eyebrows. I think it's beautiful if women look soft and touchable instead of hard, sharp and aggressively groomed.”

“It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!”

“Nothing is more important than when you see someone for the first time, and you get that feeling where you can't move or speak or do anything until you know that person and take a sense of who they are with you.”

“I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.”

“If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.”

“I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.”

“I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.”

“When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.”

“The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.”

“When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.”

“I don't really know what 'a dark place' means. I have windows in my house, and I'm generally an upbeat person! A lot of people throw that word at me because I wear a lot of black and leather.”

“My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.”

“Some girls want to be a princess when they grow up. I wanted to be in a bad bitch girl gang.”