I would say that jazz is my own language.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

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. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.

I'm of the school of thought where, if you can't sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

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 like pin-up girls. I'm more of a boy than a girl. I'm not a lesbian, though - not before a sambuca anyway.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

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.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

Yeah, I'm an open book.

Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.

If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.

There's no point in saying anything but the truth.

I just like tattoos.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

I don't regret anything.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

I've always been a little homemaker.

Women don't try to use me.

I love food.

I'm ugly.

My husband is everything to me and without him it's just not the same.

I've had everything pierced at some point.

I don't have emotional needs, only physical ones.

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.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

I've never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

I'm much healthier now.

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.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

I love America, it's a much more permissive place.

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

Yes, I'm still going to misbehave!

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.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

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.

I'm such a kid at heart.

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.