Musician

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.

Coming from an R&B background, I was like, 'I'm gonna make slow jams.'

I'm such a control freak that camping, for me, is difficult. I can't be this crazy, carefree person that wears the same outfit for four days.

Just enjoy every moment - don't stress. Just be yourself.

I'm not going to lie: I'd love to win a Grammy.

My mum is one of my style icons!

I've been making music since age five.

I'm pretty much writing all the time.

All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever.

I've been in two long-term relationships and - this sounds awful - they were really helpful for writing heartbreak. It makes good songs.

My first-ever radio interview was with Annie Mac on Radio 1!

I work hard, and I'm very separate from what my parents do.

I feel incredibly lucky to have grown up with creative parents and around creative people, many of whom live with anxiety. My mum would sometimes say that it was a beautiful thing, and that it would come in handy when making music - and it's made me a more empathetic person.

It sounds really cheesy, but as a woman, I feel like I sort of found myself.

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.

Destiny's Child's harmonies remind me of Earth, Wind & Fire.

There's so many R&B songs where guys are talking about a clingy girl, like, 'I don't want a girlfriend, and this girl's so clingy, and blah blah blah.' But I'm a woman, and I've been in situations that have been the reverse of that, so I wanted to tell that story.

I want to make people dance, I want to make people smile, and I want my music to get played in clubs.

Young women look at me and think, 'She's really confident. She has always had it figured out,' but actually, I really, really haven't. That has come over time as I became a young woman.

Kehlani is so refreshing in terms of R&B.