My mum is one of my style icons!
— Mabel
I don't want to be all over the place with my style and my music, but I am experimenting.
You have to be so careful with your voice, especially when you're using it every day.
I definitely idolised Beyonce growing up.
I like to spend time alone before I go on stage.
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 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.
My first-ever radio interview was with Annie Mac on Radio 1!
I think there's something amazing about British soul.
Swedes celebrate Christmas Eve. Every Sunday leading up to Christmas, we light a candle, then make gingerbread and saffron buns.
Coming from an R&B background, I was like, 'I'm gonna make slow jams.'
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.
Being mainstream is fun.
I lived wherever my parents felt like making music, which had its ups and downs - I've had to move schools, but I've also seen a lot of amazing places and been on tour with my parents.
I want to be an artist that grows slowly. If you appear overnight, there's a chance that you will also just disappear overnight.
I must have been five or six when I realised all the stuff I was writing made sense with what I was playing on the piano.
I'm not going to lie: I'd love to win a Grammy.
I think people look back at the '90s as a golden era of female empowerment.
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.
All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever.
I really wanted to find my own path.
I was a sensitive kid.
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.
I want to make people dance, I want to make people smile, and I want my music to get played in clubs.
Being a solo artist in general can be incredibly lonely. It's funny how often the bigger you get sometimes, the lonelier you feel.
Having a Top 10 record changed my life a lot, you know?
I just want to make music that makes people feel good about themselves.
It was such a wake-up call going to music school and being one among so many that are really good at singing.
I'm not embarrassed to say I want to be successful, but only on my terms.
I have a lot of energy in general, and I am pretty crazy.
I am very much my own person and my own artist.
Youssou N'Dour was really important to me growing up.
The important thing is that my music is getting a positive reaction and that people are connecting with it.
I want to be known for my music, and that takes time.
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 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.
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 work hard, and I'm very separate from what my parents do.
