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I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.

I always wanted to be a blonde, and it was really cool to do that for a while.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers.

I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.

I was never pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I was never quirky enough to be the quirky girl. Boys didn't look at me in high school and think I was the pretty girl.

Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.

I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.

I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'