Lily Allen

“I never go out to be photographed, never. I go to events because they're fun.”

“The world is run on fear and shame. And I don't feel like we can begin to overcome these things until we speak about them openly and stop being scared of what happens as a result.”

“You have to be in love with yourself before anyone else can fall in love with you; to be happy with yourself.”

“I don't care what people think of me now, so why would I care when I'm dead?”

“I used to be really envious of those kids who could do their homework and bring it in on time and were organised.”

“I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.”

“I grew up in celebrity world, so I know what famous people are like, and I've never looked up to them in that way.”

“I don't know how much money I've made, don't know how many albums I've sold.”

“But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.”

“I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery.”

“I had my mid-life crisis at 29. I've got my thirties and forties into the back end of my twenties.”

“I think as long as you're not being malicious and you're not hurting people then you should not be ashamed of what you do.”

“I think, ever since I started doing well commercially, it's always been like, 'Oh, well, you're only where you are because of your dad, and it must be because of Mark Ronson and Greg Kurstin that you do well.' It's just everyone apart from me is responsible for the songs that I've written selling millions around the world.”

“I can get on with someone really, really, really well… and if they’re no good at having sex with me, it really upsets me, because I think, “oh God, this is someone I’d really like to spend the rest of my life with, but I cannot face having bad sex for the rest of my life.”

“My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into place, and I'd be this perfect mum. And it didn't happen. I was very shocked and disappointed.”

“I was really rubbish at school.”

“I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.”

“Do you really enjoy living a life that's so hateful? 'Cause there's a hole where your soul should be, you're losing control of it, and it's really distasteful.”

“My success was pretty overnight.”

“My grandad was a submariner; my mum's dad was in the navy.”