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" Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little. "

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" I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between. "

" 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. "

" Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit - and I never really grew out of that, I don't think. "

" I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive. "

" I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body. "

" 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 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 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 learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble. "

" 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 don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past. "

" It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.' "

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

" I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal. "

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

" I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people. "

" I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child. "

" 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 say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is. "

" It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric. "

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

" I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years. "

" 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. "

" 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 that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving. "

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

" If I go out with no make-up and a tracksuit on, nobody comes up to me. And if they do, I won't do a photo because I wouldn't want any photographic evidence. "

" 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. "

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

" I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry. "

" I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from. "

" 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 fat, but so happy. "

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