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I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.
A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.
I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.
I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
It's important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.
And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.
I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.
If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.
I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.
Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?
The more people see of me, the more they'll realize that all I'm good for is making tunes.
My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.
Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.
Cause there's nothing, there's nothing you can teach me That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway.
I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.
There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.
Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.
I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.
We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black.
I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.
Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.
Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.
Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.
All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.
A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.
The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.
Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.
Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.
I like pin-up girls. I'm more of a boy than a girl. I'm not a lesbian, though - not before a sambuca anyway.
I'm a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can't.
I don't care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that shit.
People say my content's mature, I don't think it's mature at all. I'm just a normal 20 year old. I'm opinionated.
I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family.
To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.
I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.
I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.
I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.
I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s.
Mr False Pretence, you don't make sense I just don't know you But you make me cry, where's my kiss goodbye I think I love you
I'd like to be remembered as someone who wasn't satisfied with just one level of musicianship ... as someone who was a pioneer.
I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.
I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.
I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.
If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but it's not.