I've got a good imagination, so I can see someone arguing over a parking ticket and imagine they're getting a divorce or something.

You know, Rochdale is a really nice place, but it's not the most interesting place on the planet.

I was really skinny and I had greasy hair and I was knock-kneed. There's something still in me that's like that, and I catch myself, you know when you're walking or something, and you think, 'Oh no, you're still that drippy person.'

I was the first white British woman to reach No 1 on the R&B chart - the American black music chart.

I go through phases with money. I'll spend it liberally and then I'll panic and won't spend anything.

Having money hasn't made me any happier. There are some negatives associated with it too, like having to be away from home when you don't want to be.

If there's one thing I wish I'd done differently it would be to have invested money in property.

The power of music is a wonderful thing. It can make us happy, make us cry. It can make us forget and make us remember.

People get trapped sometimes and they don't feel they have a voice. And if you can in some way help someone by writing a song, it's really lovely.

As a rule I start the day with a delicious health cocktail which includes soya protein powder, porridge oats, water, vitamin C, sunflower seeds and honey, plus Dr Udo's Ultimate Oil Blend for all the essential fatty acids your body needs.

For a sore throat I take arnica, just a tiny pill dissolved under my tongue. And because your throat is like a muscle, I keep mine warm drinking herbal teas, usually camomile.

I work out with weights, do yoga and run on the treadmill at the gym.

I've never been a twerking kind of girl. I've always relied on my talent.

I'm like two different people. The way I sing comes from the music I listened to when I was younger, from black American R&B singers. My speaking voice is something else. It's what my mum and dad taught me.

It's good to write about love because it never goes out of fashion. And I'm quite a romantic.

Manchester has always been a massively innovative city, loads of great scientific findings have come from Manchester. The first computer in the world was there and took up a whole building. So Manchester has always been very innovative.

I always really loved soul music but all my friends were into the new romantic scene. I'd go to new romantic clubs and then go home and listen to soul music. I was sort of ashamed of listening to disco and soul music!

People come up to me and sing, 'Been around the world and I-I-I-I... ' all the time.

If you are a soul singer, you are a soul singer. If you are a heavy metal singer, then you are a heavy metal singer. What's color got to do with it? I don't go around thinking, 'I sing soul music and I'm white.' I just sing the way I feel.

You don't hear that much about me being a white and singing soul music in England, but I get the feeling that in America it's really a big thing. It's like, 'God, look at the color of her skin.'

I love acting, but I've always prioritized my music.

I think we all suffer the same pain, all feel the same happiness, and we all have the same emotions within us.

My life isn't very racy or exciting so I make things up, tell stories. I like telling stories.

For me, learning how to sing was just like learning how to speak.

Love's been here from the beginning of time, and life would be very boring without it.

You want what you write to be essential.

I think that if you hear music young, whatever music you hear influences you. I'm white, but I've been influenced by black music.

Business people want things to be safe but that's rubbish to me. In music nothing should be safe.

Tyrrells crisps are one of the top sellers in France. I don't know if you've tasted crisps in other countries, but I really think British crisps are world leaders. I went to China and they told me there is only one type of potato available there.

Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.

From the coffee bars of Camden to the gin joints of Norfolk - across Britain, a revolution is brewing. And no, it's not John McDonnell's bitter socialist hooch. It's a generation growing up with an entirely different view of the world - free thinking, optimistic and hungry for success.

As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese - they all want us to get Brexit done so that we can begin negotiations and forge new relationships that will open up new markets for British businesses, create jobs and attract new investment.

Election campaigns always have to have colour and excitement and interest. People want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare time, about their families. I think that's human.

And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.

Choice is a national instinct. This capitalist bedrock of our prosperity and security is threatened by a Labour Party that wants to overthrow the whole system.

I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.

Brexit has energised millions of people, young and old, to take part in our democracy and that's a great thing.

I was interested in the ideas - freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That's why I became a Tory.

Free-flow play is not compulsory, but there is a belief across lots of nurseries that it is. I have seen too many chaotic settings, where children are running around. There's no sense of purpose.

We are working hard at home and on the international stage to further identify the problems on the horizon and to ensure we reboot trade post-Covid-19.

I try to be as clear and straight as I can in what I am putting forward. I think people are fed up with politicians where there are lots of bland lines to take.

We are fighting a Labour Party whose avowed enemy is capitalist bosses, whose instinct is to see income as a common pool resource, and whose leading figures find profit morally repugnant.

I feel I'm fortunate compared with a lot of parents in being able to afford a nanny but, you know, it's expensive. When we've looked into trying to find a full daycare place in London it's just been impossible. You just cannot get one.

Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.

Let's cut the top rates of stamp duty to enable more movement to take place and also looking at the broader tax reform, simplifying our tax system.

When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme. One of my roles was as a commercial manager for liquid natural gas shipping, project economics and contract negotiation.

We have lots of roadside stands in Norfolk where you can just pick up vegetables that people have grown in their garden and put the money in a pot.

In order to retain our position as the dynamic duo of the world, it's vital that in the UK and US we keep opportunities open for new people and new ideas. And we can never allow our economies to get furred up.

Every pound that comes into the Exchequer was earned by someone through hard work, and could have been used for a new car, a holiday or a treat for the children. It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.

When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications. We had meetings throughout the day and the girls had to play outside the office while mummy went to 'boring' meetings.