"I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch."

"I am quite loud and bolshie."

"I'm nervous whenever I perform."

"Crying is really bad for your vocal cords."

"Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes."

"I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it."

"I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche."

"I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours."

"My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet."

"In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about."

"I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart."

"I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs."

"It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them."

"I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred."

"I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud."

"I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black."

"I've never been more normal than I am now."

"I love hearing my audience breathe."

"My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute."

"I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs."

"Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did."

"The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze."

"I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon."

"You can't complain about your dressing room or you'll look like Celine Dion."

"I can't dance to save my life."

"I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken."

"I love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them."

"I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud."

"There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition.'"

"People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look."

"I've always written down how I feel."

"I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."

"People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'."

"My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like."

"My worst fear is my music won't connect with the public."

"I love a bit of drama. That's a bad thing. I can flip really quickly."

"There will be no new music until it's good enough and until I'm ready."

"I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that."

"You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child."

"I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me."

"I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything."

"I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy."

"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim."

"I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living."

"The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit - a reputation and character."

"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."

"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."

"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy."

"The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?"