"I love dressing up. I’m from a huge African family and grew up in a really colorful place. The way I dress reflects my environment and wanting to take people into a fantasy world for half an hour."

"It's quite spiky, quite dramatic, theatrical rock 'n' roll really."

"Arctic Monkeys are a great band, but bands like that sometimes spend a lot of time reminding people about the shitiness of reality. I don’t want to sing for half an hour, reminding people about how shit Sheffield is — unless it’s for one verse or a joke."

"We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience."

"I think of the Ramones when I think of music that can save your life, but I’m not so sure about a band like Fall Out Boy who appears to make music in vein or that, at least, doesn’t sound like something they would die for."

"I love the intimacy of small venues, I really do, I like that look that people have that they feel like they're special and they can hear and they can see the band as well."

"Make a list of your favorites. Write it down. Make it legible."

"Yes we are a bullet in the heart and the message sent."

"We've been hurting a long time. Trying hard for this. We all have sizeable scars. We got it."

"Something dies when you grow older, but you do the best you can."

"If there's any justice in heaven, then God won't let me in."

"Hold on to who you love We are dry and blown like dust since we were young"

"Could I watch the next time you're applying your eyeliner?"

"Hey angel, I think your halo has a screw loose."

"I wrote your name and burned it to see the color of the flame, and it burned out the whole spectrum, as if you were everything."

"When we were kids you were the sun to which my eyes would not adjust."

"Well you're wasting time if you're trying to impress me I waste all my time just thinking of you."

"And is that what you call tact? You're as subtle as a brick in the small of my back."

"So, is that what you call a getaway? Tell me what you got away with. Cause I've seen more spine in jellyfish. I've seen more guts in eleven-year-old kids. Have another drink and drive yourself home. I hope there's ice on all the roads. And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt, and again when your head goes through the windshield."

"And tonight will go on forever while we walk around this town like we own the streets and stay awake through summer like we own the heat."

"So don't apologize. I hope you choke and die."

"They say you need to pray if you want to go to heaven but they don't tell you what to say when your whole life has gone to hell."

"You're just jealous cause we're young and in love."

"Back in school they never taught us what we needed to know, like how to deal with despair, or someone breaking your heart."

"If you were a telephone, you'd still be off the hook."

"Now I know I want to kill you like only a best friend could."

"And if you ever said you miss me then don't say you never lied."

"Whatever poison's in this bottle will leave me broken sore and stiff. But it's the genie at the bottom who I'm sucking at. He owes me one last wish. So here's a present to let you know I still exist. I hope the next boy that you kiss has something terribly contagious on his lips."

"When I'm talking to myself I'd always rather be talking to you."

"Your tongue is a rudder. It steers the whole ship. Sends your words past your lips or keeps them safe behind your teeth. But the wrong words will strand you. Come off course while you sleep. Sweep your boat out to sea or dashed to bits on the reef."

"They say that the captain stays fast with the ship Through still and storm"

"But when I say let's keep in touch, I really mean I wish that you'd grow up."

"I will lie awake Lie for fun and fake the way I hold you Let you fall for every empty word I say."

"And I've seen what happens to the wicked and proud When they decide to try to take on the throne for the crown"

"Does anybody remember back when you were very young? Did you ever think that you would be this blessed?"

"Am I correct to defend the fist that holds this pen? It's ink that lies The pen, the prose, the paper I live, I learn You will always take what I have earned And so aid my end while I believe I'm winning"

"You are calm and reposed Let your beauty unfold Pale white, like the skin stretched over your bones Spring keeps you ever close You are second hand smoke. You are so fragile and thin. Standing trial for your sins. Holding onto yourself the best you can. You are the smell before rain. You are the blood in my veins."

"This is the first song for your mixtape. It's short just like your temper, but somewhat golden like the afternoons we used to spend before you got too cool."

"Die young and save yourself."

"I'm sinking like a stone in the sea I'm burning like a bridge for your body"

"Every minute is a mile I've never felt so hollow I'm an old abandoned church with broken pews and empty aisles"

"Hey you beauty supreme; yeah, you were right about me But can I get myself out from underneath This guilt that will crush me? And in the choir, I saw our sad messiah, He was bored and tired of my laments, 'said I died for you one time but never again."

"So the say They say in heaven there's no husbands and wives On the day That I show up they'll be completely out of their forgiveness supplies And I can't use the telephone To tell you that I'm dead and gone So you won't know"

"I hope this song starts a craze. The kind of song that ignites the airwaves. The kind of song that makes people glad to be where they are, with whoever they're there with This is war Every line is about who I don't want to write about anymore Hope you come down with something they can't diagnose, don't have the cure for."

"Well, Jesus Christ, I'm alone again So what did you do those three days you were dead? Because this problem's gonna last more than the weekend Well, Jesus Christ, I'm not scared to die But I'm a little bit scared of what comes after Do I get the gold chariot? Do I float through the ceiling?"

"I lie for only you And I lie well Halleluh"

"Take me, take me, back to your bed I love you so much that it hurts my head Say "I don't mind you under my skin," Oh, let the bad parts in, the bad parts in When we were made, we were set apart Life is a test and I get bad marks Now some Saint got the job of writing down my sins The storm is coming The storm is coming in"

"This is a lesson in procrastination. I kill myself because I'm so frustrated. Every single second that I put it off Means another lonely night I got to race the clock."

"When I disappear, do you fear for the sister I took? When I disappear, it is clear I am up to no good I am drearily bloodletting this bedwetting cosmonaut "Son, the last thing you'll realize you need is what you've already got.""