Forgiving yourself will help with giving yourself strength.

I think imagination can be an incredibly powerful tool and it can help you get more confidence.

As a woman there's probably 20 people in your life that have underestimated you or will. Whether that be in your career or in your personal life and you've just got to battle it.

I really recommend it, to build a new physical relationship with yourself, and just do it on your own terms, and your own time, it can just give you a different sense of self-worth, and then help with your mental health too.

It is really amazing what you can do with your body and learning that your body has skills and a purpose, as a woman you are always taught that your body is like in the way, too big or just not perfect.

As you get older, you start to realise negativity is really bad.

I never do anything just to be crude or in your face.

I got £30 for my first gig, cash in hand.

A lot of young girls look up to me and it's amazing.

I love punks!

When you earn your own money you feel much better about yourself.

I wouldn't mind working in restaurants again because you build up a relationship with the customers. I'm really inspired by the mundane - it's often the most ordinary-looking people who have the best stories - and you can watch diners and study their idiosyncrasies without them being aware of it.

One day when I was 14 I put together a makeshift CV and walked into this weird boutique in Pinner, near where I lived, to ask if they needed a Saturday assistant. They didn't, but the owner took me on anyway.

I've met so many young women who are interested in being involved in music and I think, 'Why are you not actually doing it?' And I hope that if I tell my story, about the setbacks I had, they might not be afraid.

When I'm not touring I really enjoy the ease of cooking at home.

I come from a big Irish family who force-fed me as a kid, so not eating was never an option.

I've become aware of being in a very male-dominated industry where a door opens and it's like, 'Oh hello, it's 12 men and me. Again.'

It's really important to be a strong role model. It's one of my main things because I feel I've been exposed in such an extreme way to a lot of sexism.

As many problems as there are with Hollywood, I feel so much more protected because if there's a serious issue, I have someone I can talk to. Where's that in the music industry? We need it.

MySpace was so punk.

I had heart surgery when I was 17.

British summers give me a really happy feeling.

Sometimes it's hard for me to dress for normal situations. A lot of the time I'm either performing or travelling - so what I wear is either really fun or just really comfortable. For anything in between I think, 'Oh God, I don't know how to dress myself. But when I get on stage I'm just like, 'I can wear anything I want!'

I love any excuse to dress up; my wardrobe's a bit like a fancy dress box.