Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out.

Being a singer, being a performer, you have tricks, somehow, to calm yourself when things feel a little overwhelming. I don't do breathing exercises, per se, but I definitely have to have a sort of internal word with myself before things got completely out of hand and I fainted on the floor.

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.

You know, it doesn’t matter how beautiful you are, if you don’t have anything interesting to say, then you’re still boring.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.