PinkPantheress: “But because of the unorthodox way I choose to do things, I feel like it’s impossible for me to shape my career on someone else’s. It doesn’t fit with how I behave as a person.”

PinkPantheress: “I don’t see writing music as being different to writing a book… There’s only so much I can say about myself.”

PinkPantheress: “I think the one thing about social media today, with this generation especially, is that they can smell inauthenticity a mile off. It’s really just been a case of being myself, and if people like it, then cool. People online just will not give you a chance, will not give you a break. So I was like, ‘I’m gonna take the simple route and not post that much, and people can make their own assumptions. And I really don’t mind what their assumptions are, as long as it’s not some crazy stuff.'”

PinkPantheress: "I love privacy, which sounds so bizarre, but I love when anyone has a private hidden hobby. I love when people are passionate, because I find that you are more passionate about something when less people know about it."

PinkPantheress: “I write from other people’s perspective a lot of the time because I feel like it’s way easier for me to invent a story than to keep taking my own past personal experiences and going, ‘OK here, here, here.’”

PinkPantheress: “I used to be a maladaptive daydreamer. It used to be so hardcore. I still do it a bit, but I used to talk to myself endlessly, and I’d have these fake scenarios, and I’d act them out and convince myself it was happening.”

PinkPantheress: "Just showing my face is a tiny way of making someone that listens to my music feel like they can resonate with me even more."

PinkPantheress: "If I’m in a session, I really don’t ever go to a session intending to not create something that I’m going to put out, which sounds really crazy and almost a little bit toxic. It feels like I’m putting a lot of pressure on myself, but I try to be efficient. It sounds really bad, it’s never wasting time because you’re always learning, but I always try to make something worth putting out."

PinkPantheress: “I feel like it’s so important as an artist to show versatility, because once you do that people realise you’re not leaning on the beat for the music to be good. You’re just leaning on your own pen.”

PinkPantheress: "I want to be happy and I want to not have to go back to university."

PinkPantheress: "I think things like me not posting much on social media, me not giving out my name, not giving out this bit of information or that—it’s just little things that people can’t access that make me feel a lot more comfortable in this situation."

PinkPantheress: “The passion that they’re exuding, you don’t really get in pop. In emo, it was always something different.”

PinkPantheress: "Once people knew what I looked like it also felt way more intimate which is nice. I’m really glad that people feel like they can know me better without knowing every single detail about me."

PinkPantheress: "Navigating [fame] has been a lot easier because of the people that I’m around. There could be potential sometimes to be surrounded with the wrong types of people that do this for the wrong reasons and don’t understand what you’re trying to do as a musician."

PinkPantheress: “I’m so bad at organisation: I’m not lazy, but I’m not good at managing anything.”

PinkPantheress: “I guess in a way there’s a correlation there between emo culture and spooky stuff like Halloween. I don’t have tattoos or piercings, so from the outset, I don’t think I look much like someone that’s gonna watch Saw or really like this band or that band. But I do have a soft spot for that kind of dark, haunted stuff.”

PinkPantheress: “I don’t like to know what people think. I hate it. That’s why I was anonymous, because I don’t want people to ever comment on anything. I’ve suffered with body dysmorphia my whole life, and even more recently.”

PinkPantheress: “I can’t plan anything. I can’t just do it. It has to, in the least cliché way, be a feeling.”

PinkPantheress: "I think you can create equally as good a song and equally as good an impression on your listeners with another beat if you know how to maneuver your way around the beat."

PinkPantheress: "I think a lot of the public assume that if you want to make music then you want to be famous and have your face everywhere. I think for me there were just certain bits of information that I knew I didn’t want out, and even a few months ago I didn’t have my face out because I didn’t really want people to know what I looked like."

PinkPantheress: "I’m obviously not at this point yet, but the idea of not being able to leave my house is gross to me, and the idea of having to make my life a bit harder because of people invading privacy made me really nervous. But I think there is definitely a way to navigate your way around it, and surrounding yourself with the right people is the most important part."

PinkPantheress: "I like working with people that I know. I wouldn’t say I’m awkward, but when I work with a producer it’s way more intimate than you might imagine."

PinkPantheress: "I sampled Adam F’s 'Circles' [for 'Break it off'] and the idea that people haven’t heard the original but have heard my version actually very much upsets me. It genuinely makes me sad because it doesn’t truly feel like the song’s my own. Just because of that I feel like I’d rather be making completely original music."

[On things she used to daydream about]

PinkPantheress: “About becoming a musician, about finding love… I used to love it! And I do think it’s a form of manifestation. I guess in a way it was kind of romanticizing a life that I didn’t have, but I do now, which is cool.”

PinkPantheress: “I also don’t enjoy going to events. Genuinely, just take me home. Let me lie in bed and let me sleep!”

PinkPantheress: “I was really young when I started [music]: I was still developing into my looks. Seeing myself on camera, especially with other people choosing what pictures to put out there, was very hard for me. I just hated it, because I felt like people were going to see pictures of me and they’re going to think I look like that.”