Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
— Paloma Faith
Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.
I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.
I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.
You cannot schedule death.
All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.
I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.
I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.
I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.
I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.
If I go out with no make-up and a tracksuit on, nobody comes up to me. And if they do, I won't do a photo because I wouldn't want any photographic evidence.
Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.
I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.
I just have an inability to lie.
There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.
We live in a society where everything's packaged.
We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.
I'd rather die than let somebody get the better of me.
I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.
Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.
I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.
I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.
Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.
I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.
I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
If I see something that inspires me, I'll dress like it.
I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.
I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.
It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.
A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.
I enjoy being a girl.
It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.
I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
I'm a serial monogamist.
I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.
I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.
Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.
I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.
