"I think there's something amazing about British soul."
"Having a Top 10 record changed my life a lot, you know?"
"Being mainstream is fun."
"I work hard, and I'm very separate from what my parents do."
"Being a solo artist in general can be incredibly lonely. It's funny how often the bigger you get sometimes, the lonelier you feel."
"There's so many inspiring women dominating the charts, so I feel like I'm definitely a part of a wave that's just really interesting and really cool."
"I think growing up, people want to put you in a box and label you quite often, just because it's kind of easier, I guess."
"I want to make people dance, I want to make people smile, and I want my music to get played in clubs."
"Coming from an R&B background, I was like, 'I'm gonna make slow jams.'"
"I wish I could teleport and cut out the travelling in between gigs. I want the luxury of the shows without the painful bits stuck on a tour bus."
"In the bathroom, having taken my make-up off and opened my eyes, I always think there's a ghost behind me. It feels like there's a weird presence. Maybe it's my brain reacting to me without make-up."
"Swedes celebrate Christmas Eve. Every Sunday leading up to Christmas, we light a candle, then make gingerbread and saffron buns."
"Harry Styles threw a cream pie at my face in front of 15,000 people to thank me for the months we spent on the road."
"I was a sensitive kid."
"I want to be known for my music, and that takes time."
"I really wanted to find my own path."
"My first-ever radio interview was with Annie Mac on Radio 1!"
"The important thing is that my music is getting a positive reaction and that people are connecting with it."
"All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever."
"I grew up listening to loads of afrobeats; my grandad's Sierra Leonean, so that was always around. My mum loves those kind of beats, too."
"Youssou N'Dour was really important to me growing up."
"I feel so blessed that I grew up in the age of the independent woman, the survivor. I had Destiny's Child telling me I didn't need a man to feel good about myself, and I want to carry on that message."
"I've been working a lot with this girl Kelly Kiara. She's amazing. She's going to be super important for R&B coming out of the U.K."
"I am very much my own person and my own artist."
"I think people look back at the '90s as a golden era of female empowerment."
