Dua Lipa

“It's challenging to open for someone: You've got to prep the audience, get them in the mood, and get their attention if they don't know you. You're going to show them what songs you've got. You've got to leave your mark.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“I'd love to work with Drake; I'd love to work with Frank Ocean, Jay Z, and Kanye. The list is endless.”

“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.”

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

“I can't dance. If I try, I'll trip onstage.”

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

“I'm so obsessed with Cardi B. I do nothing but sit and watch her Instagram videos.”

“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?”

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

“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.”

“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.”