Maisie Peters

“I've always loved telling stories in a big way, of being dramatic to the point of hilarity.”

“I feel like I've missed like a handbook where they tell you how to like do famous people things.”

“John Hughes' films create this whole world in a very short amount of time. They're so vivid and it feels like a snapshot of youth with the coming of age experience and the melodrama of it all. That's what I try to do with my music - create a visual and emotional world really concisely.”

“I'm very lucky that I grew up writing.”

“Songs that people think are about my life are actually not about my life at all, and in fact are about friends or TV shows or books.”

“My mother calls me spiky, which I think is not entirely inaccurate.”

“I'm just so, so grateful that I have this fanbase that are so funny and supportive and interested.”

“Obviously, I grew up on Ed's and Taylor's music, and Taylor's my all-time idol. And Ed is obviously a huge part of the music that I make and the reason why I make it. So it's been really cool working with Ed and getting to know him as a friend and a mentor.”

“Oh, you know, there's just a constant rage burning inside me.”

“Buddy Holly' by Weezer is one of my fav ever songs, which I think is pretty unexpected? 'Good Luck' by Basment Jaxx is also an absolute fav, and 'Often' by The Weeknd was - hilariously - my Year 11 school trip anthem with me and my girls.”

“I would like a countrywide retreat but am not sure whether I'll get a countrywide retreat in the future but I'll manifest it.”

“Musically, Taylor has continued to evolve and grow with every project.”

“My dad would come with me when I was busking so that if anything shady happened, he could be there, but he would also pretend not to be my dad, he'd just loiter around.”

“There are definitely some songs more than others where I feel like I'm reliving a moment in time.”

“It's very calming and nice to feel so secure and confident in what you made, and to get to share that with the world.”

“I'm not very good at winding down, to be honest.”

“When I went blond it was a very different time in my life, in terms of what I was doing and who I was becoming.”

“I'm somebody who believes, which is kind of funny because I'm cynical, that you can be in love with someone you met three days ago and can also not be in love with someone you've known for five years.”

“It's so special to have a real log and chronicle of the way you spend your time.”

“I've grown as an artist, as a person, as a songwriter.”