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" I'm heavily influenced by the Nineties - I love juxtaposing a slip dress with trainers and a vintage leather jacket. "

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" I was 11 and living in Kosovo. I knew I wanted to perform but didn't feel like I could do it there. So I moved back to London on my own at 15, carried on going to school, and started posting cover songs online. I had no idea how I was going to become a performer, but I felt like I had so many more opportunities being in London. "

" Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of. "

" Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I'm trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the audience every single piece of me. "

" My father was a musician, so I feel like falling into this career was a bit inevitable. "

" For me, my aim is to just be as good as possible. If people do look up to me, I have to set the best example I can. "

" I'm learning to accept myself. I'm still in the process of learning to love who I am. And it's been really refreshing and really nice to be able to do that and be okay. I think my fans have brought that out in me. "

" I started posting covers online and having this crazy determination about what I wanted to do and just went for it. I was like, 'Okay, no one else can create my future for me, and no one can get what I want for me, so I have to go out and get it myself.' "

" My goal is to get my music out to as many people as possible. That a song of mine is being played on the radio so far away from home really, really pushes me. It's everything I've dreamed of. "

" My parents never pushed me towards music. I feel like, growing up in a musical household and always being surrounded by it, I was always kind of a performer child. I remember my parents would have guests over, and they would bring their kids, and I would make sure that we were ready to put a show on. "

" Social media can sometimes influence the charts, but I think that only great music makes it to the top. The good songs make it. "

" Traveling is the worst for skin, and it shows instantly. Once you're working non-stop, you can instantly see it. "

" I use a toothbrush on my lips as a lip scrub; occasionally, I use a toothbrush with some dark eye shadow on my eye brows if I want to fill them in. And if I want a really thick, textured look with mascara, I put one on my lashes, as well. "

" I love Pink and Nelly Furtado - the honesty and truth in their lyrics. I also love Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper. "

" When I think of artists I love, like J. Cole, it's the storytelling that grabs me. I want to be honest with my music. "

" Every time you achieve something, you want to go after what's next. I'd like to see my own shows grow and someday be a headliner, fill up stadiums. "

" I think the artists are really the face of the music they make. It's no longer the genre that dictates it. "

" I get a bit insecure if I feel like there's too much makeup on my face or if I feel like I'm cakey. "

" For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or with a guitar, you know? "

" I always wanted the flowiness that hip-hop artists had. I always admired how they rapped so fast, but I never wanted to rap; I wanted to sing the rap. "

" The first album I was given when I was quite young was the 'Whoa, Nelly!' album by Nelly Furtado. After, I also got the 'Missundaztood' album by Pink. That's when I was like, 'Oh my God, I want to be just like them!' "

" For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it's all manufactured. "

" I like how powerful fashion makes me feel. I live for that grungy-prissy juxtaposition that Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Drew Barrymore wore in the '90s. "

" I dated this guy who literally would never eat a single vegetable. I was like, 'This is terrible. You eat like a five-year-old.' "

" My first concert was Method Man and Redman because they came down to Kosovo. "

" 'Redbone' from Childish Gambino - that is my ideal summer tune. It's already gone and done its thing, but I want it to live on forever. "

" I've always been very much in control of my music and my image, and I think one of the things I've been lucky about is I didn't bring a label on board until I really figured out who I was. "

" If I wasn't a singer, I would be a fairy princess. "

" I never really wanted to base success on charts and chart positioning. For me, it's really about the shows and seeing them grow. "

" I always told myself never to have a plan B - I feel like that's also one of the reasons I'm doing what I'm doing now, because I just never really rested until I got here. "

" I feel like I wear kind of the same things on stage that I would wear every day, unless I'm being lazy, and then I just wear trackies. But actually, if I'm honest, I wouldn't really walk down Kilburn High Street in a leotard, and I would wear that onstage. "