Lily Allen

“I had quite a turbulent upbringing. It was middle class, and everything was quite comfortable, but everyone was mental.”

“As a woman and as a mother, as a young mother, I felt guilty about being successful.”

“I think I'm like Marmite; you either love me or you hate me.”

“I just felt like I couldn't deal with the everyday responsibilities of life, paying bills and all of that. I'm terrible at all of that. So I knew I had to make enough money to pay someone else to deal with all of that.”

“I was guilty of appropriating when I did a video called 'Hard Out Here.' I was guilty of assuming that there was a one-size-fits-all where feminism is concerned.”

“I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know.”

“With the first two albums and with my social media, I've always been very open about who I am.”

“Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.”

“I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.”

“In an ideal world, the 'Daily Mail' would write about what a brilliant mother I am. But it's not going to happen.”

“If you ask most people, 'Who's Lily Allen?,' they'll say, 'That girl who's in the papers all the time.' Not that girl who wrote songs.”

“I'm always going to have an addictive personality.”

“A lot of my honesty, and wanting to be as authentic as possible, came from coming out of bands like S Club 7 - things that felt glossy, you know? And with the rise of social media, there was an initial backlash against that glossiness, too. And then, I don't know, somehow it managed to get lost again.”

“I'm not scared of anything.”

“Role models should be people that you know. Like your mum.”

“I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.”

“I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?”

“I hang out with models, the biggest pop stars and, you know, really and honestly, I hate saying this, but none of them are achieving those body shapes by being healthy.”

“All I know is that Conservatives aren't interested in helping anybody but themselves get richer.”

“I like to travel. I come from a travelling family.”