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.

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

I don't even have a TV.

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

I can be a cruel person.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

I've got a crush on my backing singer.

I look after people.

I'm very loyal.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.

I'm not a natural born performer.

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.

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.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me.

I can express myself.

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

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 can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

I want at least five kids. I want twins.

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'm happiest with my family around me.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.