People expect you to be this weird cartoon sometimes when you're a musician. I hate that. I hate standing out. I hate people looking at me. I just want to be part of the crowd.

Dubstep has been big in the UK for years. I'm fine with hearing a dubstep drop in any song.

Someone asked me the other day what my favourite record shop was, and I said YouTube.

I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.

I'm a big fan of Beyonce and Rihanna. I've listened to Beyonce all my life, and she's a big influence on me.

I'm excited about representing my gender, but at the same time it doesn't matter. I wouldn't say my gender has been a disadvantage.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.

I've always known my own mind, and I'm not shy about speaking it.

Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.

My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.

Education reform doesn't come cheap. But the price of ignorance is far, far greater

You may use a thousand words for a single lie, but the  truth has no twin.

Lovely flowers sometimes bloom in ugly places.

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.

Fantasy appeals to me and can be very much reflected in my dress - but then, each day is different. Not every day is a magical day.

I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Just get the right syllable in the proper place.

It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.

The older a woman gets, the more invisible you become.