Musician

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.

Being a solo artist in general can be incredibly lonely. It's funny how often the bigger you get sometimes, the lonelier you feel.

I don't want to be all over the place with my style and my music, but I am experimenting.

I want to be known for my music, and that takes time.

Relationships with cities are similar to relationships with people: being away from both can really make you appreciate what you have.

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.

When I was younger, I would listen to Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake, Aaliyah: lots of '90s R&B.

I just want to make music that makes people feel good about themselves.

A couple of days out of the month, I talk to my stylist, and we just get a big chunk of looks that'll last me a while.

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'm just trying to be myself and encourage other young women to be themselves.

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

I wouldn't be who I am if my parents hadn't been musicians.

I'm really good at the '90s slow jams. I've got that down. But I love to dance, so why wouldn't I make something I could dance to?

Producing isn't my favourite bit about what I do, but the fact that I know how to do it gives me this sense of power in situations that are super male-dominated.

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 really wanted to find my own path.

The important thing is that my music is getting a positive reaction and that people are connecting with it.

I grew up in a house full of musicians, and my mum really taught me that when you listen to an album, you respect that it's somebody's art, and that the B-sides are just as important as the singles, and we should really listen to the album all the way through the way it was intended to be listened to.

It was such a wake-up call going to music school and being one among so many that are really good at singing.