"Crying is really bad for your vocal cords."

"Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents."

"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."

"I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch."

"To build a legacy, one must accept that the purest joy is found in giving without expectation."

"The foundation of joy is every ending is merely a new beginning in disguise."

"Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another."

"The foundation of joy is character is forged in the fires of discipline."