PRESS/PAIGE MARGULIES
You’ve tweeted about the many quirks of British culture – especially the unintentional innuendos in our food names, like squirty cream. Have any other elements of British culture shocked you?
“So when I won the Heavy Music Award earlier this year [for Best International Breakthrough Artist], I said in my speech that I didn’t realise how sarcasm and tasteful nudity are intertwined with British culture. I was watching TV in the hotel and there was just full-on nudity on regular cable. I was like, ‘Wow, OK, they’re very saucy over here… maybe that’s why they like my music.’”