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" I enjoy being a girl. "

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

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" My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson. "

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" When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment. "

" 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 in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that. "

" I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound. "

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" I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will. "

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

" 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. "

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" I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money. "

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" I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back. "

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" I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go. "

" Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination. "

" No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me. "