Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.

Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.

I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.

I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.