Maisie Peters

“There's nothing like heartbreak to make you magnify yourself with the most poisonous of lenses - insecurities you've always had swell up tenfold in the darkness, and you find yourself desperately unpicking every thread of your being.”

“I'm very lucky to have such involved and caring fans who really root for me, and I root for them. It's very wholesome.”

“My music is for the quietly unhinged.”

“I always want my friends to be across my music.”

“Outdoor Pool' was written in Suffolk about my school crush and kissing him in a pool. That didn't really happen - really sorry. Maybe I should pretend I did to keep to the fairytale!”

“Myself and Ed Sheeran had a lot of mutual friends. And they told him I was pretty good, and he invited me to come up to where he lived and work with him.”

“My dad played the recorder but got kicked out of recorder club when he was 10. And ever since then it's been a dark subject. We don't talk about it.”

“The YouTube channel wasn't an overnight success. By 2016, after three years work, I had 40,000 followers and my manager found me through that. It was also around that time that I had to decide if I wanted to go to university, but by then I knew that I was far enough along to pursue music.”

“Yes, I'm not from a musical family, so I borrowed my friend's guitar and started writing songs for my school music project. And I actually wrote my song and my sister's song, and then I wrote my friend's song. So I was basically a jobbing songwriter at the age of 12.”

“I'm obsessed with the almost - what you almost say, or almost do, or you almost had or almost lost. All of those moments, I think, make for interesting music and also feel very female as well, that whole experience.”

“I think it's important to see that success or growth doesn't happen overnight.”

“There's an instant connection for me with Canadians. Maybe it's a Commonwealth thing? Yeah, Commonwealth girlies!”

“I was really inspired by Lorde's second album 'Melodrama,' not so much sonically, although it is an amazing album, but more so just how important that album is. It's her second album and it was so important culturally and to me and my friends, so formative and struck a chord with us, so cohesive.”

“The connection I have with other women, the relationships I have, are so important to me and some of the greatest in my life.”

“Getting to see the impact of the music that I write and people having moments with their friends is cool.”

“I loved being able to make something and then put it out that day and have people immediately feed back.”

“To me 'The Good Witch' represents... there's femininity in that, there's power in it, destruction. There's a sense of control, which I love.”

“I can't imagine telling past me that she was going to go on tour with someone in One Direction.”

“Well, I'm a massive Taylor Swift fan and I loved Girls Aloud and Lily Allen - so I think, in a way, I'd studied those songs, growing up.”

“We're all living in the same world so there is an element of a shared human experience that we must all be subconsciously reacting to.”