For me, love is happiness and inspiration.

People have been kind enough to compare me to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. I think it's amazing that they even put my name in the same sentence.

I am, and always will be, proud to be a Hackney girl.

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.

I'm trying to stay as healthy as possible but there's no pressure to be really skinny. No. That's just a bit wrong.

When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer.