Quotes from Mabel

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 think people look back at the '90s as a golden era of female empowerment.

Gigs are my favourite thing - even the not so good ones, because you always learn something.

I feel so blessed that I grew up in the age of the independent woman, the survivor. I had Destiny's Child telling me I didn't need a man to feel good about myself, and I want to carry on that message.

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.

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

What gives you real power is when you know your power. And I feel quite powerful.

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

I've always been sure of my vision, but I've been in meetings where men have been talking about me like I'm not there... I've been told I should be a certain way, and I wondered if that would have been the case if I was a man.

You have to work hard as a woman for people to take you seriously.

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

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 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.

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

Being a creative person, I want to feel the highs and the lows.

I think the best thing that I can do is be myself. I don't know about being a role model; I think placing that sort of title on myself is too much. It's trying to be this thing that puts loads of pressure on something.

Kehlani is so refreshing in terms of R&B.

I want people to really care when I release an album.

My mum is one of my style icons!

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.

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

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.

I don't actually get that many DMs. I tell myself that it's because guys might be intimidated, but I'm not that sure.

I had a difficult childhood. I had lots of anxiety and questions. I found the world scary and intimidating.