"In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me."

"My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like."

"I've never been more normal than I am now."

"I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver."

"Women are made to be loved, not understood."

"He who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."

"It is a essential truth that fear will knock at every door; only those with resolved hearts refuse to let it enter."