When I hit a period of not being able to write music, I get up and walk away. It's pretty mean but it's true.

I don't care what people think of me now, so why would I care when I'm dead?

I always wanted to do music but never really had the confidence to do it until my first manager George Lamb, who I met out in Ibiza, encouraged me.

I don't like being put in the same category as people because we have the same genitals and boobs. Nobody is going to write "Lily Allen vs. Ed Sheeran." It just doesn't happen.

I've actually broken up with boyfriends for inspiration.

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.