100 Quotes by Olly Alexander

I love TLC and Aaliyah and all those early-millennial R&B singers.

I am obsessed with Matt Healy.

Justin Tranter is an incredible queer voice in pop music and he's writing for Justin Bieber: it's genius.

I grew up loving artists like the Spice Girls and Britney Spears - artists who seemed to live this fantasy lifestyle, and I remember always wanting to join these fantasy people in that world.

What's great about being gay is that you can celebrate all types of sexualities, because we understand that being queer means you might also be gender nonconforming or bi or whatever.

If you look at pop stars through the ages, we've had camp, glam popstars from the 80s - your George Michaels and what have you - but then people went back to the closet a bit, and became more homogenised and generic.

I think music can be therapeutic and a really positive thing, but that seeing a therapist is the best form of therapy you can get.

At 13 I taught myself piano from an old song book, and Joni Mitchell's 'Both Sides Now' was the first song I learned.

I feel like you could listen to any Bon Iver song and it would make you cry. They're all so heart-wrenching.