You've also worked with Fernando Garibay (Lady GaGa, Britney Spears) and Jeff Bhasker (Kanye West) on the album. Were you nervous at the time?
"No! The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them. For me, I see it as a producer needs an artist to work with, and an artist can work with anybody. It's a privilege on both ends. I bring just as much to the table regardless of how new I am as an artist - that's irrelevant. The only important thing is that we value creativity and have chemistry."

What else can we expect from the record?
"It's definitely a concept album: all the songs revolve around my ambition, celebrations, frustration and disappointments of being a perfectionist. I think we're all perfectionists - we're all looking for the best to fulfil our ideologies and dreams. 'Break You Hard' and 'Nothing Lasts Forever' are two of my favourites on it, but I suppose they all are really! It's hard to pick out songs when you've committed so much to each one."

Your sound and style has been compared to Lady GaGa - does that worry you?
"People keep using that word 'worry' and it reminds of when I used to live in the UK - they seem to worry about a lot of things! I live a very worry-free life. What's the worst thing you can think of? You might get in an accident and die, but once you're dead, you can't worry about it then, can you?!"

Christina Aguilera was often compared to GaGa during her last album...
"I think it's irrelevant and stupid. They both have ****, blonde hair and a microphone - I don't see why people should worry about it. I don't think Christina's unpopularity or lack of fortune recently is to do with the being compared to GaGa. I think that she was at certain level and disappeared, and then came back and tried to fit in with the current trend and it came off desperate. I think if she stuck to her soulful, pop-meets-gospel R&B, maybe her original fanbase would have supported her more. She'll recover from it, though, because she's talented."

Do you think it's harder now for female artists to gain recognition since Lady GaGa's success?
"If people like your music and it's good, then what does it matter? Who gives a f**k? If people like the music, it will survive. GaGa is the most popular artist at the moment, but we don't know what's going to happen in the next three years. I've been making music since I was 14, before the likes of Christina and GaGa's music careers even existed. If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons."