Once you accept that we’re all imperfect, it’s the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all...

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There’s something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I’d love to have that legacy.

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

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 not to brand myself ‘weird’ any more because it sticks.

I’d rather be on my own than be with a violent man.

Anybody who says they don’t want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they’re in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we’d complement each other, but I’m hoping he’s got a good sense of humour.

I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.

I feel curious about every situation I’m in.

Dressing up is like therapy; I feel better in myself when I’ve made an effort.

I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

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’ve got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.

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

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’d rather die than let somebody get the better of me.

Anything that’s on television as often as someone on ‘The X Factor’ is what’s successful. That doesn’t mean that I condone that or think that it’s right. To be honest, I’d be the first to...

I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I’ve got a good imagination. I went to art school...

I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to...

I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

You know, my mum’s always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant...

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

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

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

If I see something that inspires me, I’ll dress like it.

I’m a serial monogamist.

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

I’m not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I’m on holiday. I do enough shopping when I’m at home, and like to have a complete break when I’m away.

I go running three times a week – outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it’s important for health...

I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I’m going to ensure that I’ve packed the...

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

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

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don’t want it to be.

Some men think that if you’re empowered and sure of yourself then you’re a man-hater, but it’s like, ‘No, I’m just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.’

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.

Curvy is something to be proud of.

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.

It’s celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it’s about other people.

I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn’t have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg...

I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I’d come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite...

I like sparkles; I think I’m a magpie.

A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that’s a fear of my confidence. Most women...

I get plenty of, ‘Is that song about me?’ from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

We live in a society where everything’s packaged.

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

My mum came from nothing and didn’t have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.