In the bathroom, having taken my make-up off and opened my eyes, I always think there's a ghost behind me. It feels like there's a weird presence. Maybe it's my brain reacting to me without make-up.

I don't want to be all over the place with my style and my music, but I am experimenting.

Coming from an R&B background, I was like, 'I'm gonna make slow jams.'

The important thing is that my music is getting a positive reaction and that people are connecting with it.

Having a Top 10 record changed my life a lot, you know?

I lived wherever my parents felt like making music, which had its ups and downs - I've had to move schools, but I've also seen a lot of amazing places and been on tour with my parents.

Being mainstream is fun.

I work hard, and I'm very separate from what my parents do.

I think there's something amazing about British soul.

Youssou N'Dour was really important to me growing up.

I've been working a lot with this girl Kelly Kiara. She's amazing. She's going to be super important for R&B coming out of the U.K.

I am very much my own person and my own artist.

I like to spend time alone before I go on stage.

I have a lot of energy in general, and I am pretty crazy.

I'm not going to lie: I'd love to win a Grammy.

I'm not embarrassed to say I want to be successful, but only on my terms.

I must have been five or six when I realised all the stuff I was writing made sense with what I was playing on the piano.

You have to be so careful with your voice, especially when you're using it every day.

It was such a wake-up call going to music school and being one among so many that are really good at singing.

I just want to make music that makes people feel good about themselves.

Kehlani is so refreshing in terms of R&B.

I'm pretty much writing all the time.

Destiny's Child's harmonies remind me of Earth, Wind & Fire.

What gives you real power is when you know your power. And I feel quite powerful.

I went to Glastonbury when I was 14, and that was really fun.

All my songs are things that have happened to me.

I've been making music since age five.

I wouldn't be who I am if my parents hadn't been musicians.

It sounds really cheesy, but as a woman, I feel like I sort of found myself.

I want people to really care when I release an album.

I'm really good at the '90s slow jams. I've got that down. But I love to dance, so why wouldn't I make something I could dance to?

That's why I love music - because I'm such a control freak, and it's the only thing that I can't really control.

I'm just trying to be myself and encourage other young women to be themselves.

When it's my show, I know that everybody is there to see me - but I like a challenge, and I like the fact that at festivals not everybody is there to see me, but I have the chance to convert people.

Relationships with cities are similar to relationships with people: being away from both can really make you appreciate what you have.

I'm independent; I live by myself.

Young women look at me and think, 'She's really confident. She has always had it figured out,' but actually, I really, really haven't. That has come over time as I became a young woman.

You have to work hard as a woman for people to take you seriously.