Curvy is something to be proud of.

I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.

You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.