I feel like I'm a quick learner and I'm also very quick to forget. That's why I can't play an instrument because I can't bloody remember it.

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.

If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.

I've got a checklist of things I want - including a Brit, a Grammy, an Oscar and a white poodle. Sometimes it gets lonely, and I want a baby too! I'm ticking things off the list.

People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.

I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.