Mabel

“I'm not going to lie: I'd love to win a Grammy.”

“Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.”

“I went to Glastonbury when I was 14, and that was really fun.”

“When I was younger, I would listen to Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake, Aaliyah: lots of '90s R&B.”

“I grew up in a house full of musicians, and my mum really taught me that when you listen to an album, you respect that it's somebody's art, and that the B-sides are just as important as the singles, and we should really listen to the album all the way through the way it was intended to be listened to.”

“I had a difficult childhood. I had lots of anxiety and questions. I found the world scary and intimidating.”

“I think knowing where you came from and where you want to go is really important.”

“A couple of days out of the month, I talk to my stylist, and we just get a big chunk of looks that'll last me a while.”

“Young women look at me and think, 'She's really confident. She has always had it figured out,' but actually, I really, really haven't. That has come over time as I became a young woman.”

“There's so many R&B songs where guys are talking about a clingy girl, like, 'I don't want a girlfriend, and this girl's so clingy, and blah blah blah.' But I'm a woman, and I've been in situations that have been the reverse of that, so I wanted to tell that story.”

“I grew up listening to loads of afrobeats; my grandad's Sierra Leonean, so that was always around. My mum loves those kind of beats, too.”

“Having a Top 10 record changed my life a lot, you know?”

“Gigs are my favourite thing - even the not so good ones, because you always learn something.”

“I know I love going to my gym - I have a whole list of things I love to do by myself without needing someone else to make me happy.”

“I'm such a control freak that camping, for me, is difficult. I can't be this crazy, carefree person that wears the same outfit for four days.”

“I definitely idolised Beyonce growing up.”

“I was a sensitive kid.”

“Being a creative person, I want to feel the highs and the lows.”

“The important thing is that my music is getting a positive reaction and that people are connecting with it.”

“Kehlani is so refreshing in terms of R&B.”