Quotes from Dua Lipa

I started posting covers online and having this crazy determination about what I wanted to do and just went for it. I was like, 'Okay, no one else can create my future for me, and no one can get what I want for me, so I have to go out and get it myself.'

I never really wanted to base success on charts and chart positioning. For me, it's really about the shows and seeing them grow.

I was 11 and living in Kosovo. I knew I wanted to perform but didn't feel like I could do it there. So I moved back to London on my own at 15, carried on going to school, and started posting cover songs online. I had no idea how I was going to become a performer, but I felt like I had so many more opportunities being in London.

I'm so obsessed with Cardi B. I do nothing but sit and watch her Instagram videos.

I feel like I wear kind of the same things on stage that I would wear every day, unless I'm being lazy, and then I just wear trackies. But actually, if I'm honest, I wouldn't really walk down Kilburn High Street in a leotard, and I would wear that onstage.

For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or with a guitar, you know?

I'm learning to accept myself. I'm still in the process of learning to love who I am. And it's been really refreshing and really nice to be able to do that and be okay. I think my fans have brought that out in me.

The first album I was given when I was quite young was the 'Whoa, Nelly!' album by Nelly Furtado. After, I also got the 'Missundaztood' album by Pink. That's when I was like, 'Oh my God, I want to be just like them!'

I think the artists are really the face of the music they make. It's no longer the genre that dictates it.

Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of.

I love Pink and Nelly Furtado - the honesty and truth in their lyrics. I also love Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper.

I always told myself never to have a plan B - I feel like that's also one of the reasons I'm doing what I'm doing now, because I just never really rested until I got here.

When I think of artists I love, like J. Cole, it's the storytelling that grabs me. I want to be honest with my music.

Traveling is the worst for skin, and it shows instantly. Once you're working non-stop, you can instantly see it.

I get a bit insecure if I feel like there's too much makeup on my face or if I feel like I'm cakey.

Social media can sometimes influence the charts, but I think that only great music makes it to the top. The good songs make it.

If I wasn't a singer, I would be a fairy princess.

For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it's all manufactured.

I still take a lot of pride in being able to write my own songs. My story's coming from me.

My parents never pushed me towards music. I feel like, growing up in a musical household and always being surrounded by it, I was always kind of a performer child. I remember my parents would have guests over, and they would bring their kids, and I would make sure that we were ready to put a show on.

I always wanted the flowiness that hip-hop artists had. I always admired how they rapped so fast, but I never wanted to rap; I wanted to sing the rap.

Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I'm trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the audience every single piece of me.

My first concert was Method Man and Redman because they came down to Kosovo.

I can't dance. If I try, I'll trip onstage.