Quotes from Lily Allen

In an ideal world, the 'Daily Mail' would write about what a brilliant mother I am. But it's not going to happen.

Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.

A lot of my honesty, and wanting to be as authentic as possible, came from coming out of bands like S Club 7 - things that felt glossy, you know? And with the rise of social media, there was an initial backlash against that glossiness, too. And then, I don't know, somehow it managed to get lost again.

Yeah, I was a florist. I went to floristry school.

I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.

I like to travel. I come from a travelling family.

I don't know how much money I've made, don't know how many albums I've sold.

I had my mid-life crisis at 29. I've got my thirties and forties into the back end of my twenties.

I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain.

I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery.

Role models should be people that you know. Like your mum.

I don't think men are the enemy. I think women are the enemy.

My grandad was a submariner; my mum's dad was in the navy.

I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.

I hang out with models, the biggest pop stars and, you know, really and honestly, I hate saying this, but none of them are achieving those body shapes by being healthy.

I'm not good at many things. But I really like songwriting, and I get a good reaction from it. There's not much that I do that causes a good reaction, so it feels like if I want to have good things happen, then I should do the things I'm good at. I mean, in all seriousness, I left school at 15. I'm unqualified to do anything else.

I had quite a turbulent upbringing. It was middle class, and everything was quite comfortable, but everyone was mental.

I used to be really envious of those kids who could do their homework and bring it in on time and were organised.

I was guilty of appropriating when I did a video called 'Hard Out Here.' I was guilty of assuming that there was a one-size-fits-all where feminism is concerned.

The world is run on fear and shame. And I don't feel like we can begin to overcome these things until we speak about them openly and stop being scared of what happens as a result.

My success was pretty overnight.

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

I love MySpace it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.