Janelle Monáe: ‘I have to feel a film role in my pubic

As she prepares for a UK tour – including Glastonbury – the singer and actor answers your questions on Prince, what makes her blush, and why we shouldn’t ostracise AI

You always look immaculate. Who are your style icons? 12monkeys
That’s very nice of you to say. I wish you could see me right now – I look like I just came out of a dirty dishwasher. I think maybe my style icons are the different versions of myself: I live in different realms, so the version of me that lives in 1960, 2719 or 2805. I think about the magazines that exist in those times and take inspiration from that. I am drawn down lots of rabbit holes and into uncovering the universe.

Have the James Bond producers ever reached out to you to collaborate on a James Bond theme? I always thought of BabopbyeYa as a James Bond theme. howcomebubblegum
I agree. I love the score of a lot of the James Bond films. Goldfinger is one of my favourites, and You Only Live Twice is another. So they can definitely call me! But BabopbyeYa was on my first album; my music has always been cinematic, so I’ve always understood cinema and big band orchestration, string arrangements. I feel it in my ovaries.