I haven't had surgery. I've had my teeth done, which was a massive insecurity for me. But I'm one hundred percent happy. It's difficult, not just for people in the media, but for everyone - young girls and boys - especially in high school.
I feel great, I'm happy with my look, and that comes with age and feeling confident.
As a writer I'm always mindful that not everyone is going to feel the same way I do about something, so my emotions are just my emotions.
Everyone is so attached to someone having a spat with another celebrity. It overshadows the good people do.
I've been incredibly lucky throughout the beginning stages of my career up 'til now, and so lucky to work with the incredible people I've worked with.
I feel that my fans deserve to get something that's authentic and real.
I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists.
I think it's really important to do what you want to do because in the long-run it's your career, you want everything to go well and you want to be happy with what you're doing. It was really important for me to take control of my career.
I think that you should just be yourself and make sure you pick a really, really good song, and make sure you're memorable.
There's lots of R&B blogs that I like going on and it basically just names new music that isn't out and won't be out for a long time and stuff. It just gives you an insight on what's coming up next and finding out about new artists.
I like to YouTube a lot, and try and find unknown singers.
Sometimes I just like to listen to unknown people, that can be really, really cool. I like going on blogs and stuff.
There are lots and lots of different films that I love, and watching different characters and how different people play them.
I'd probably like to get into acting - I've got lots of things that I could do, but at the moment it's just music, music, music.
I think if you want to make an impact, you've got to say what you feel and do what you feel.
If people want me to be their role-model, it would be nice.
I like to experiment a lot, I just like to make myself look different to everyone else. Shopping at all different places from vintage to high-street, and then I just put it together myself.
When you see the mega-stars doing really, really well, it gives you hope that you could probably do that too.
I'm alright with who I am and I don't feel that I need to be better.
I am a singer, not a full-on rapper.
I just want my songs to be memorable, and for people to hear my songs in ten year's time and remember the great times they had while listening to 'em.
I need to not be scared of not having someone there to back me up. I just need to tackle things on my own. I feel like I have the power in me to make it work.
I would hope to think my fans are full of attitude, are a bit vicious, and always fight for what they want. That's exactly what I'm going to give them.
It's been great to come to the U.S. and not have people judge me because of what they saw or heard when I was 16 and on a TV show. They're actually judging me on the fact that I can sing and how my personality is now. Which I think is great.
I'm able to reach a wider audience, an older audience. I can gladly say that I'm definitely not a bubblegum princess anymore.
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