I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So I became a music journalist at the age of 16.

If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup.

Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful.

When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone.

When you've got a mother who's given birth to eight children, you know, often without any kind of medical intervention - just she gave birth to one of my brothers sort of on the bedroom floor in front of all of us -you know, you see that women are fairly capable.