Alexa Chung

“Music is my sport, and I'm the number-one athlete.”

“I worry all the time that I'm going to run out of ideas, you know? I always tell my mom my fashion ideas, because I know she'll remember them.”

“I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.”

“When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the U.K., and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.”

“It's a weird day and age when you can tire of icons simply by overexposure.”

“People want an easy sound bite.”

“Stick to the classics, and you can't ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and realize it's because they are probably wearing really classic items that they've had for years and years. I think if you find something that suits you, you should just stick to it.”

“If it's comfy, it probably doesn't look good.”

“When I was a model, I started with an opinion, but was encouraged to lose it. It began as play-acting, but then I lost sight of myself a bit: so when I did the audition for 'Popworld' and they asked my opinion, I felt like crying with happiness.”

“No one says the word 'quirky' much in England. I guess because people are more naturally eccentric.”

“I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.”

“London street style is the best in the world. Fact.”

“I've been learning French a bit through my work with Longchamp, and I've been in France quite a lot. And I really love how they express themselves. I especially love when something is untranslatable.”

“People comment on my voice. They always ask me if I'm ill.”

“I don't like it when people don't know the difference between 'their', 'they're', 'there'.”

“I admire American women because they are really good at putting a look together that is sophisticated. As British girls, we lean toward being a bit more messy, a bit more undone, and maybe a little more eccentric.”

“I love Simone Rocha. I just think she's really clever.”

“I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.”

“I'm always helping out girlfriends, and then I'm wondering, who's going to look after me?”

“I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.”