- Won a Brit Award for "Best British Female Solo Artist" (2008).
- In April 2017, she started a Kickstarter campaign to finance her fourth album. The campaign was a success, making it her first crowdfunded album, and her second self-released album after 'Girl Talk'.
- She suffered from tachycardia (exceeding of the normal heart rate), which resulted in symptoms such as chest pains and palpitations. Because of that, she underwent a life-saving laser surgery at the age of 18. Her song "Death Proof" was inspired by that experience.
- A founding member and a director of the Featured Artists' Coalition, a lobby group launched in 2009 with the aim of giving music artists a greater voice in big decisions in the music industry, from digital deals to copyright law.
- Born to an English father and an Irish mother.
- She is a staunch supporter of LGBTQ+ rights and gender equality.
- In 2005, she fell down the stairs and broke her foot, which left her homebound. During that time, she started to write her first songs.
- Before her music career took off, she worked in a River Island shop and a Nando's restaurant.
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