X HERSELF X
"I like that feeling of buying something new - it gives yu a little frisson. Trouble is, frisons get expensive."
"I was quite outspoken and cheeky and opinionated, but I wasn't like a rule breaker."
[on herself as a child]
"I loved that very tongue-in-cheek English thing, I also liked that feeling of being a part of something.
I think that's what being a teenager feels like - being with people who understand."
[on hanging out at West End Clubs as a teenager]
"For every person that says I'm the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien"
"I'm a bit coquettish, it's flirty stuff, I'm 22, I really like to have a poise when I'm singing, a certain character. Hopefully she's quite bright."
"I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next."
"Some people can get away with being sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough."
[on why she refused a deal with underwear firm Agent Provocateur]
X MUSIC X
"I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it. This is a great opportunity, I don't wanna look back and think, 'I should have been a bit bolder.'"
"There's music as a way to be famous, and all of that side of it. And there's music because you love singing, for me, I love a good mixture of both."
"There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying."
"Sophisticated pop, stuff that doesn't talk down to people. I just want something that has got a bit of conviction to it and a bit of depth. I don't find there's too much of that around."
[on her first solo material]
"I find my success with Spiller pleasant but ludicrous, because it is so incongruous to what I normally do, I don't listen to dance music. I don't go to clubs. I've never been to Ibiza or any of the big clubs in London, and I couldn't tell you my favourite DJ or anything like that."
"I thought, 'I'll have a nice time doing something, it'll be a real breath of fresh air to do a dance track.' It was still going to be a song-based thing."
[on hit single with DJ Spiller and his summer anthem - 'Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)']
"I think whoever's on stage should look like they're supposed to be on stage, I think performers should be a bit larger than life."
[on Britpop]
"It was all a bit Spinal Tap, we kept having all these arguments."
[on the end of theaudience]