Music was my ultimate ambition but I liked all of it. I wanted to discipline myself in dance and acting too and I'd done all three since I was 9-years-old. I could sing, but I didn't become a great singer.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason, but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

I don't care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that shit.