Inside the creative mind of Mobo winner FKA twigs

FKA twigs performed Figure 8 and In Time

The pure spectacle of an FKA twigs performance is what makes her such an appealing artist to many of her fans.

She's now won a Mobo for best video for Pendulum, which she directed herself.

"No-one has any idea how much I put into what I do," she told Newsbeat. "It's my world and when someone says, 'Well done', it's all worth it."

The singer gave her only Mobo radio interview to Newsbeat, backstage in a corridor at the Leeds Arena, where this year's ceremony was held.

"The Mobos are a chance to be recognised in a place where we don't usually get recognised.

"There are TV shows about singers and dancers where you can be propelled to fame and have a number one.

"It means people can be overlooked because others have this huge machine pushing them. A lot of the artists here (at the Mobo awards) have had to come from the ground up."

Backstage, journalists are keen to hear what she's got to say. The reason? While she was accepting her award, the camera cut to her boyfriend Robert Pattinson in the audience.

But FKA twigs keeps her private life exactly that - private.

Instead, talk focuses on what she likes best: creativity.

Most of the things you see in an FKA twigs video or performance have come from her.

She comes up with a lot of the concepts herself but admitted that she "doesn't write anything down".

"I'll have an idea in my head and then it will sit there for six months. It's always very abstract but my team know where I'm coming from. I love making things."

She's living the dream that she always had - to be centre stage. She performed Figure 8 and In Time at this year's ceremony.

Watch FKA Twigs perform at this year's Mobo awards.

The 27-year-old also has history with the show, something she referenced in her acceptance speech.

"I danced for Wretch 32 when he performed Traktor a couple of years ago. I was also in Lethal Bizzle's video for Firecamp.

"But when I was doing all those other jobs, I wanted to be on the stage myself so to perform here is brilliant."

Having worked as a performer all her life, she pays tribute to the numerous dancers she works with, calling them "family".

"Me and my dancers are so tight. I'll tell them to 'touch me', 'look at me' or 'grab me' and it doesn't feel weird. I'm surrounded by really nice people. We know we're on the same page."

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