I think all the covers I do have nice sentiments, particularly 'Your Song.' People write me very sweet messages about that song, though I'm sure there are people out there saying that I've ruined it too!

I feel more confident if my makeup looks good.

Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it's like your body will work against you.

I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

I'm always intrigued by people that listen to my music, I just naturally want to get to know people who listen to my music because people who end up having such an attachment with my stuff, I wonder why they have such a connection to something that's so personal to me in the first place.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.