“All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.”

There’s nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

I think I’d be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the 40s. I’d be allowed a level of mystery and I think I’d suit that decade.

I enjoy being a girl.

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.

My mum’s always on at me to have children and blames ‘that stupid stage thing you do’ for me not already having a family.

My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

If I get in a relationship, it’s always for the long-term; if not, I don’t see the point.

I’m not interested in what other people are doing. That’s their business.

I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.

I’m very affected by what I watch and read.

We live in a society where everything’s packaged.

I don’t understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

Adele’s like a beacon of honesty. Doesn’t compromise, goes to America and she’s still the same sweary cockney.

I’m proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

I don’t feel I fit in with morning television because I’m like a vampire and I like to stay up late.

I have a lot of admiration for people who’ve been in relationships a long time, married for years.

God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.

There are so many beautiful parts of me but your eyes were too out of focus to notice.

You, like nature again, will bloom again and change beautifully.

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

Let autumn be proof that change is a beautiful thing even tho it can be hard to see at first.

In places where everyone is beautiful, i am tempted to toy with my ugly.

Sitting watching the sunset she was thinking about him the way she always did when she saw something beautiful.

The darkness is only here to remind you how beautiful everything is when light comes back.