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'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

My family are too grounded, and I will go home to visit. I always need my dose of Liverpool to keep me grounded.

I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.

If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.

I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away.

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