There are some really amazing artists and people behind the scenes who are really effective in championing feminism in the music industry, and I think that's really important for people in the industry and for young girls and guys to see. It should become universal. It's really about the other people understanding that everybody's equal and that women are equally as valid creatives, businesswomen, powerhouses...whatever you want to call them.

A good song can make you smile, or it can make you dance or laugh or remind you of a moment.

I can't stand to hear my own voice. If one of my songs comes on in a café, I'll run out right away and come back with the police.

I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.

I started writing my own things when I was about 8. I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground. Then I realized, Oh god, my career's going nowhere, so I looked in the Yellow Pages and phoned up the first cheap studio that I found and started recording.

I've definitely become more commercially successful. I think everything has changed over the past two years. People seem to take me seriously now as a songwriter for other artists and as an artist, which is funny to me because I always thought I was good. I guess that's the main change, which is pretty interesting.

I don't want to be a pop star. I want to be a nursery-rhyme star!