Kate Nash
I think Berlin is always inspiring. I love being in Berlin. It feels like such a cool city, with so much culture and art and independence everywhere.Collection: Independence
I really recommend it, to build a new physical relationship with yourself, and just do it on your own terms, and your own time, it can just give you a different sense of self-worth, and then help with your mental health too.
I have really bad anxiety and OCD. I get afraid of everyone I know dying.
I love skeletons and bones so much.
I've a tiny little scar on my chin from when I fell over on stage, bust my chin open and bled everywhere.
If you're on an indie label, you're not getting enough money. And if you're on a major, you're not getting enough support.
I've been really inspired by my roots - my ancestors and Irish history.
Even though I'm super into tarot and astrology, I don't believe in knowing too much about the future.
When I first started, in 2006, it was an exciting time. Independent, cool, weird artists were being successful, and magazines were writing about them, and people were getting played on radio that were, like, really good.
I want to be in a Tarantino movie, more than anything in the world.
I never wanted to be like: 'Oh, just because I'm a singer I can be in films now.'
I'll always be playing shows. Even when I'm a crazy granny wearing weird old granny clothes and wandering around with dementia, I'll still be playing. Whether anyone else will turn up is another question.
I've got quite bushy eyebrows and brown eyes.
I always wear red lipstick.
Everyone has self-esteem issues when they are a teenager, but I think you have to accept who you are, because otherwise you are going to have a really unhappy life.
The Walking Dead' is my show. I download it from iTunes so that I can watch it the second it comes out. It's a show that I've got really involved in, emotionally.
I get a bit overwhelmed by the number of shows I haven't seen, that are still on my bucket list.
There were so many weird shows when we were younger. 'Clangers.' 'Button Moon.' 'The Moomins.' All very weird, but very cool too.
I got into punk at 17 after discovering an all-girl band from Long Island on the Internet called The Devotchkas - four crazy-looking girls with fast, driving basslines and high-pitched gang vocals who shared the same dress sense as the punks I used to eye up curiously in Camden.
Listening to Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna gave me the confidence I needed to get up on stage and be photographed every night on tour.
Punk may have helped me find my voice and made me realise that I had the right to have one, but it was riot grrrl that helped me sustain that voice and shout a little louder.
I started my own zine, and riot grrrl became a huge part of my identity.
When you're on tour, you know exactly what you're doing and what's required of you. There's a routine.
I think I was probably overworked. I was doing huge tours and having two days off and then going out again. It burned me out.
People are fragile. Our brains are fragile and you can only abuse them for so long.
I would like to think that an artist's mental health is taken into consideration more now.
Filming 'Glow' helped with my confidence.
Hair is so important and emotional. I dyed mine black and blond after a breakup - there's something really powerful about changing your hair when you're in a weird place.
I love any excuse to dress up; my wardrobe's a bit like a fancy dress box.
Sometimes it's hard for me to dress for normal situations. A lot of the time I'm either performing or travelling - so what I wear is either really fun or just really comfortable. For anything in between I think, 'Oh God, I don't know how to dress myself. But when I get on stage I'm just like, 'I can wear anything I want!'
British summers give me a really happy feeling.
I once got asked in an interview: 'Does it annoy you that the majority of your fans are teenage girls?' I was insulted and angry because it was sexist and ageist.
I had heart surgery when I was 17.
MySpace was so punk.
Artists often have mental health issues. And their lifestyles are unstable because of all the travelling and the media commentary on their lives.
As many problems as there are with Hollywood, I feel so much more protected because if there's a serious issue, I have someone I can talk to. Where's that in the music industry? We need it.
When we're in London my family goes to mass on Christmas Eve. The next day Dad cooks the turkey on the barbecue, standing outside in the freezing cold.
When I was younger, I'd always cry on Christmas Day, and I didn't know why. Now I know it's because I was just overwhelmed by the togetherness.
It's really important to be a strong role model. It's one of my main things because I feel I've been exposed in such an extreme way to a lot of sexism.
I've become aware of being in a very male-dominated industry where a door opens and it's like, 'Oh hello, it's 12 men and me. Again.'
When I was young I was listening to the Spice Girls and Destiny's Child. I was singing 'Independent Woman' and 'Survivor,' and it was all about Girl Power and being with your friends. I don't think I was singing, 'Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?'
You have to be cynical because this is a business. Everyone is making money out of you.
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are the most wonderful creatures.
People have said I'm too fat to be a pop star.
I come from a big Irish family who force-fed me as a kid, so not eating was never an option.
When I'm not touring I really enjoy the ease of cooking at home.
On tour it's hard to be vegetarian, especially in Europe because vegetarianism is basically unheard of. They think you're either joking or mad.
I've met so many young women who are interested in being involved in music and I think, 'Why are you not actually doing it?' And I hope that if I tell my story, about the setbacks I had, they might not be afraid.
I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like a poet.
One day when I was 14 I put together a makeshift CV and walked into this weird boutique in Pinner, near where I lived, to ask if they needed a Saturday assistant. They didn't, but the owner took me on anyway.