When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.

I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.

I try not to brand myself 'weird' any more because it sticks.

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'

I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.

The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.

I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.

Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

I've spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment.

I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.

Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.

I think soul is soul. I don't see new soul as any different to old soul.

I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.

My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

Curvy is something to be proud of.

I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.

I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.

Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.

I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.

I just have an inability to lie.

I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

You cannot schedule death.

I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.

I'm not a downtrodden woman. I just won't be.

We live in a society where everything's packaged.

Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.

I'm very affected by what I watch and read.

I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.

We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.

Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.

All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.

I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.

There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.

A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.

I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.

I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.

I don't overthink when I'm styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!

You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.