“I’d like to be remembered as someone who wasn’t satisfied with just one level of musicianship as someone who was a pioneer.”

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.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

I wouldn’t be with a man who was scared of me, but I don’t think men are scared of me – look at me, I’m tiny. I don’t think I’m capable of putting anyone off. I’m a nice girl.

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.

Having played with other musicians, I don’t even think The Beatles were that good.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues…It’s called rock now.

You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.

There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.