Quotes

I was a real geek at school. I had to move schools a lot because of family problems, which was quite alienating. I'd be thrown into these new situations and found it hard to make friends, so I became a recluse. I read a lot of fantasy stuff, or I'd play the piano alone in the music room. I was such a dweeb.

[on flying back from America when the plane hit some turbulence] [I imagined being] sucked into a giant black hole that would swallow the earth, and we'd be stuck going round the universe for ever.

No [my first song Here I Am wasn't me announcing my arrival as a budding pop star], it was about a boy I fancied. I didn't have very good luck with boys. I was nerd of the week. I was little, with frizzy hair. All the cool girls smoked and went out with the rugby boys.

[on playing with a prog-rock combo while studying for A-levels at college] We thought we were really trippy. [Did she inhale?] Everyone else did, but I've never even smoked a cigarette. I'm really straight.

I've been called 'the future of pop'. How can you live up to that? It's brilliant, but it can be overwhelming.

I worry a lot. About everything.