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

I’d say that, first and foremost, I’m a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

Curvy is something to be proud of.

It’s tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, ‘Oh, look, another quirky girl.’

I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I’m not a free person.

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

I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons – my mother had breast cancer and I think it’s very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.

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

It’s celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

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

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

There’s nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

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.

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 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’m not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

If the world grows darker, our light shines brighter.

For every dark night, there’s a brighter day.

The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can rise again

During our dark times, we may see the challenge in every opportunity. But we often forget that there is success hiding behind every challenge.

Light and darkness are equally as healing – when you sleep at night you recharge and daytime allows you to live out your life

You need the dark in order to show the light.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.