“I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.”

A song marks an occasion in my life and that’s how I live my life, by songs.

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.

I don’t listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It’s all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You’d have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music – I couldn’t sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

I’m planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

I’ve had everything pierced at some point.

When I was a little kid it was my dream to go to drama school, but it was never something I thought would happen to me. I was a Jewish girl from North London and things like that don’t happen to Jewish girls from North London called Amy Winehouse.

At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna’s Immaculate Collection every day

I would say that jazz is my own language.

I’ve always had my own style, I’ve always been different. I don’t like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it’s very important for me to make a statement.

I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there’s rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

When I go back in to re-record a line. I’m the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing.

You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.

I’m looking forward to getting back on the field, it’s what I love to do.

It feels good to give back to the people who support you.

There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

It’s enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor,