I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

'The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.

Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.

Some people can get away with being very 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 Provacateu.

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.