My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.

I'm not afraid to have no make-up on and no hair. I just want to be stripped back.

And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with.

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.

Life isn't about winning it's about what you learn and how much you can grow.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.