My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.

I was looking for something to make me happy, and once I realised what I actually had, then I found success.

I don't really read books. Wish I did.

People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.

I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected, it started to get me down. But my voice was always there and my dream and my ambition was always there when I went through bad times.

I like Marilyn Monroe; she was super glam, weren't she?