“It’s important to drive your own ship, and it’s your career, so you might as well take it by the reins.”

Something most people don’t know about me is that I’m quite the loner, I would say. I don’t really ever leave my house.

It breaks my heart that some of my fans think that because they love me and they idolize me, they have to be just like me and dress like me and act like me.

To my younger self, I would say not to be so hard on yourself. I think that you are your biggest critic.

I want to do things that are true to me and give people a sense of who I am.

I usually go to sleep with wet hair. When I wake up, it either has a really pretty wave, or I look like a poodle.

Do what you want to do, and don’t feel pressure to do what other people want.

I like to think, hopefully, people agree that I’m fashionable.

I want to be role model for people to be like, ‘I don’t need a major label to be a successful artist and to have a successful song.’

I’ve definitely had my fair share of guys being a little too much with me, and they think just because they follow me on Instagram, they know me.

I just love music – I was always singing and dancing.

There was a time in my career when I felt like I wasn’t being true to myself. I was being moulded into an artist I wasn’t, and I knew I had to do everything I wanted to do. I think that’s an issue a lot of women face, and men do have it easier in a lot of ways.

I think my fans inspire me a lot. They’re a huge part of my career. I wouldn’t be where I am without them, so I try to feed off what they’re going through. I read their tweets and Instagrams.

Every time I feel like I’m gaining a bit of weight, I’ll eat healthily for, like, 3 days. Then I’ll be like, ‘Oh, I look skinny again.’ Then I’ll go back to eating bad, but I tell myself it’s OK, I’m only 19, so I can do it while I can.

I’m very much focused on my career.

I feel like, with makeup, I really picked it up on my own. There’s no one really in my family – my grandma is probably the closest – who loves makeup like I do.

It’s fine if you doubt me. Underestimate me, because then I’ll just impress you, you know.

Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don’t have control over that as a cricketer.

There are those who build careers and companies just out of being popular on Instagram, but theres nothing behind them.

Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don’t ask for it. You just have to live with it.

I mean, my music career and my acting career – if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it’s going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I’m hoping they’ll just go hand in hand.

When I structured my career, I looked at Muhammad Ali, which is my all-time favorite and an idol of mine, and what he has done for this sport. He was a real-life hero.

Dilbar’ is very close to me. It was a turning point in my career.

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.