How to Publish a Book

The advantages of self-publishing and traditional publishing

You’ve finished writing a book, and you want to publish it.
Fortunately, there are only two ways of marketing your new book: self-publishing it or selling your book to a publisher.

Today, it’s easier to sell your own book. The digital channels have been improved, and readers are turning into e-book readers.

There are several digital formats in which your brand new work can be transformed in. The simpler one is, obviously, plain text. But you deserve better.

Formats like .PDF, ePub, HTML, Mobipocket, Kindle, Multimedia eBook, Newton Book, eReader, Plucker and Post Script will be able to spread the number of readers you will have on several platforms.

The advantages of self-publishing are many. If you publish your own book, you won’t get rejections from trade publishers, you will increase the revenues from the book sales and you can quickly put it out on the market.

Amazon, for example, has created an online book publishing label that will get your new book sold in wider markets, reaching millions of electronic readers.

In conclusion, self-publishing lets you control the content, pagination, design, format, price, rights, marketing and communication of your latest book.

Of course, there’s always the traditional book publishing way, in which a third party handles almost all the process.

Classic publishing companies take care of it all. Also, you have the privilege and pleasure of touching a book and its pages. Seeing your favorite book in the bookshelves is always an exciting moment.

Publishing firms may also get you a check for signing or an advance on future book sales. The best way of getting a good publishing company is by listing all national businesses and getting them a copy of your work.

Later, analyze the best offers and make sure they’re promoting your book in a wide variety of channels, from newspapers and TV to social networks and blogs.

Make a decision and become a best-seller.

When to Write a Book?

Inspiration is the key ingredient for writing a best-selling book

Books were made for being written, published and sold. The greatest books of all time have been developed in crucial moments of the history of the civilizations, or in the most important dates in the life of men and women. Writers get inspired by life, humans, animals, Nature and objects.

But, is there a particular hour of the day to write a book?
The answer is “yes”. And there’s more. Books result of a desire to share ideas, beliefs, knowledge and feelings. The trigger for book writers is often an emotional event – birth, death, change, trauma – or a rational event – to teach, to mark history, to share knowledge.

So, if you’re about to write the first book of your life, try to feel when it’s time to grab the pen or hit the computer keyboard. Technically, and from a medical point of view, writing a book is easier after the early morning coffee.

Human brains are “fresher” in the morning, after a good night sleep. It’s easier to coordinate and manage ideas with the early sun rays. Of course, many well known Nobel Prize writers have already explained why nighttime is the best time to write a book.

Writing a book late in the night is an inspiring thing for many best-selling writers and book lovers. The silence and the dark of the night are regularly cited as the best moments of the day to produce a passionate book.

Regular physical exercise and nutrition help focus on the writing task.

Also, try to schedule a flexible agenda to keep the writing pace alive. You do not want to force your inspirational drive, but pragmatism and effectiveness are very important rules.

Setting a timer can also be useful unless you’re really doing very well. Planning 45-minute sessions of writing, before a 10-minute break, is a good advice. Writing a book shouldn’t be an exhausting marathon.

Words and characters will flow. Whether you’re writing a novel, a romance, a historical fiction book or a biography, make sure you set some fair rules. Socialize with family and friends, walk the dog and sleep seven hours.

In the next day, before starting your writing session, take a quick look at yesterday’s phrases and connect with the new ideas. Inspiration for writing books is all about timing.

How to Write a Book

Learn the basic steps towards a best-selling book

Writing a book involves work and method. New writers have always raised the question: how do you write a book?

Fortunately, writing is something anybody can. A book is a collection of ideas, memories, thoughts and emotions. There are many ways of getting a new book on the shelves of the world’s largest bookshops.

To start writing a book, you don’t need a title, index or summary. You can start writing simply because you’ve had a few interesting ideas. Why don’t you take notes? If you’re having your first morning coffee, go ahead and write down a few topics or complete paragraphs.

A white book page can be written anywhere and anytime. If you’re not in a hurry to get that book finished, you can let time inspire your own words. Some people prefer to write down short phrases so that longer ideas can come later.

It is also very important to believe in what you’re doing. Writing a book is a personal view, so your words should express your beliefs. Don’t judge yourself and your words. Get going.

There is also an excellent method for writers who enjoy organization and discipline. Here are the basic steps to writing a book with a well-structured plan:

1. Find a title that suits the overall book summary idea. Now, you’ve got a provisional title.
2. Write a brief book summary that may tell the story of your work in two paragraphs.
3. List several chapters and sub-chapters that may get into your book.
4. Start writing the first words and lines of your book from the beginning.
5. As soon as your book gets a good writing rhythm, review your provisional index and correct what you think should be fixed.
6. Manage your writing times. Try to identify the best moments for pushing your new book forward. Is it after lunch? Does your pen flow better at night?
7. Never miss an idea. The worst times may enlighten you with a few thoughts. Write them down on your computer, mobile phone or Moleskine.
8. Keep the writing pace. If you feel you’re doing well by writing two A4 pages per day, try to discipline yourself to this writing rhythm.
9. Do not set a pre-defined number of pages for your book. There is no magic number. Less is more.
10. Re-read and review your book draft once finished, but only one week after writing your last sentence.

Writer’s block only happens in the mind. Yes, you can write a book and yes, you can write a best-selling book. Go for it and let your ideas flow free. A book has a beginning and an end.

April Fools’ Day Quotes

April's Fool Day Quotes | Photo: Pascal/Creative Commons

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams

A fellow who is always declaring he’s no fool, usually has his suspicions.
Unknown Author

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.
Arabian Proverb

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool’s coat still.
Antoine de Rivarol

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
Henry Louis Mencken

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Welsh Proverb

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
Mark Twain

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
Ambrose Bierce

April Fools gone past, and you’re the biggest fool at last.
Unknown Author

April noddy’s past and gone, You’re the fool an’ I’m none.
Unknown Author

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men… and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Don’t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Jewish Proverb

Don’t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.
Irish Proverb

Even the gods love jokes.
Plato

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.
Nicolas Boileau

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Chinese Proverb

Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
Gene Brown

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
English Proverb

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Michel de Montaigne

He who is born a fool is never cured.
Proverb

I have great faith in fools: self-confidence, my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe

I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.
Jack Handey

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.
Welsh Proverb

If it thunders on All Fool’s Day, Expect good crops of corn and hay.
Unknown Author

Isn’t it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool’s Day and ends with cries of May Day!
Unknown Author

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.
Spanish Proverb

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain

Lord, what fools these mortals be.
William Shakespeare

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?
Rita Rudner

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It’s good to be silly at the right moment.
Horace

None but a fool is always right.
Augustus William Hare

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Unknown Author

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry

Real friends are those who, when you feel you’ve made a fool of yourself, don’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
Unknown Author

Silence is the wit of fools.
Jean la Bruyere

So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
William of Baskerville

Suppose the world were only one of God’s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
George Bernard Shaw

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn’t be any fun living in it, or profit.
Josh Billings

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
Mark Twain

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
William Shakespeare

The fool is always beginning to live.
Proverb

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Thomas Shadwell

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Charles Caleb Colton

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
William Shakespeare

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
Will Rogers

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
Nicolas Boileau

There is no greater fool than he that says, ‘There is no God,’ unless it be the one who says he does not know whether there is one or not.
Otto von Bismarck

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Quintilian

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
Voltaire

We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
Japanese Proverb

What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
Spanish Proverb

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.
Cynthia Heimel

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
Maurice Freehill

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
Benjamin Franklin

Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato the Elder

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
Plato

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so.
Metcalf

Skateboarding Quotes

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All I wanted to do was ride skateboards – I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.
Travis Barker

Don’t fail to try, fail trying.
Unknown Author

For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don’t know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn’t a professional skateboarder, I’d still be skating every day.
Ryan Sheckler

Having a girlfriend that skates is as bad as having a girlfriend that strips!
Clyde Singleton

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. ‘Action sport’ would be the least offensive categorization.
Tony Hawk

I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn’t think about money, I didn’t know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things.
Jason Lee

I like to snowboard on a skateboard on concrete.
Eiki Helgason

I live to ride, and ride to live.
Ryan Sheckler

I love skateboarding, but it makes me the worst psychopathic maniac.
Mike Taylor

I won’t quit skating until I am physically unable.
Tony Hawk

If skateboarding ever gets too scary for you, then you were never meant to skate in the first place.
Jake Phelps

If you really want a career in professional skateboarding,you really got to stop pushing mongo.
Jamie Thomas

If you skateboard, you cant be afraid to have people laugh at you.
Mark Gonzales

Life is a lot like skateboarding.
Lil Wayne

My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don’t see that changing. When I’m not skating, I love to surf. I’m open to the new experiences and opportunities.
Ryan Sheckler

Skate for fun, not for fame.
Unknown Author

Skate or die.
Unknown Author

Skateboarding doesn’t make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.
Lance Mountain

Skateboarding has a lot to offer a kid. It includes gifted athletes who work hard and take the sport seriously.
Todd Jett

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness… it gets your senses to be spot-on and it’s also a great way to take my mind off things.
Shaun White

Skateboarding is a poetry of motion.
Stevie Williams

Skateboarding is a way to let your body control the mind.
Shaun White

Skateboarding is not a crime.
Unknown Author

Skateboarding is the best thing that ever happened to me, but it ruined my life.
Mike Leslie

Skateboarding is training, but I don’t think of it as training. It’s fun.
Shaun White

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries – and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.
Bam Margera

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it’s really anybody’s game out there.
Shaun White

Think about how much skateboarding opens your eyes to see the world differently.
Jon Humphries

Usually the thing that signifies that I’m done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.
Shaun White

When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.
Demetri Martin

Adele Quotes

Adele

A drunk tongue is an honest one, in my opinion.

Amy Winehouse, eat your heart out.

Apparently, I’m a very spacial aware considerate driver according to my instructor.

Be understanding that, sometimes, you got to let your hair down.

Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.

Even if I did have, you know, a ‘Sports Illustrated’ body, I’d still wear elegant clothes.

He got me interested in film and literature and food and wine and traveling and politics and history, and those were things I was never, ever interested in. I was interested in going clubbing and getting drunk.

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn’t mean to but I just did.

Hopefully I won’t be married and be like, Darling, we need a divorce to write another album.

How was it winning a Grammy? ‘I shit myself!’

I always say I’m a singing lady, rather than a singer.

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I’m done with being a bitter witch.

I am quite loud and bolshie. I’m a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.

I can’t write another break-up record, that would be a real cliché. It would be just like a boring, running theme. People would be like: ‘No, that’s enough now, cheer up’.

I don’t have a type. Never have.

I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

I don’t really need to stand out, there’s room for everyone. Although I haven’t built a niche yet, I’m just writing love songs.

I don’t rely on my tits to have hits.

I don’t want people confusing what it is that I’m about. I just stand there and sing. And I don’t do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don’t think I’d get away with it.

I don’t want to be a skinny pop star – I don’t have time for diets’.

I doubt I’ll be singing forever, because at some point people aren’t going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I’ll still get the opportunity to write songs.

I find it quite difficult to think that there’s about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a break-up.

I get so nervous on stage I can’t help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it’s pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I’m going to be able to deliver.

I got some fan mail recently. It was a crispy tissue. How fucking inappropriate is that shit? A 22 year old girl, how fucking inappropriate. And then he was like, This is what I imagine when I’m having a wank. Fucking dirty old pervert. And then he was like, Let’s meet up, e-mail me. And I was like, yeah, I’m really going to come and fucking come for dinner with you and you’re wanking into a tissue and I haven’t even met you. Ha! So disgusting!

I got this dress today, right, and it’s vintage and I smell like the person who used to wear this. It smells like a dead person so I smell like a dead person.

I hate confrontation. That’s why I write fucking songs – because I can’t say anything.

I have insecurities of course, but I don’t hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

I have no idea what I want to sound like yet. I think my albums are always going to be a little bit eclectic.

I have the passion to dance, I just don’t have the rhythm.

I just started reminiscing of how at the beginning, my skin would tingle anytime he would ever touch me and I’d wait by my phone and be going crazy because he didn’t reply to my texts within ten seconds and all of the things in-between… and I bet he doesn’t even remember why he loved me.”

I just want to make music, I don’t want people to talk about me. All I’ve ever wanted to do was sing. I don’t want to be a celebrity. I don’t want to be in people’s faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven’t even known I’m on.

I just wanted to make good songs, and I think I’ve done that.

I like eating fine foods and drinking nice wine. Even if I had a really good figure, I don’t think I’d get my tits and ass out for no one.

I like having my hair and face done, but I’m not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don’t find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I’ve never had a problem with the way I look. I’d rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

I love a bit of drama. That’s a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.

I love going and performing to live people who mean something, rather than all the critics.

I love hearing my audience breathe.

I love Nicki Minaj, I love her arse, and I’m straight, and I love her arse.

I love seeing Lady Gaga’s boobs and bum. I love seeing Katy Perry’s boobs and bum. Love it. But that’s not what my music is about. I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred. I rather get a dog then get pregnant.

I really don’t feel like talking about masturbating in an interview in these cameras!

I remember when I was 10, I nicked my mum’s Lauryn Hill album and listened to it every day after school in my bedroom, sitting on my little sofa bed and hoping to God that one day I’d be a singer.

I think he’s a bit bitter because the album is doing a lot better than anyone expected. And I think he’s still hanging out in London in a bit of kind of shabby apartment and I’m staying at a very nice hotel around the corner.

I tried to bite my tongue a bit on this record, but I ended up being more honest than the first one, and I think it might come back and bite me in the bum.

I want to leave an album behind that is classic, that people in 50 years will refer to and pass on to their children. An album that you never bored of.

I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that’s not true. My house was haunted, that wasn’t true. God, there’s been so many rumors.

I was always the joker at school. But I didn’t really realize I had a natural sense of humor until I started telling stories onstage. You get the timing down. Also, people laugh when I open my mouth anyway, even if I don’t tell a joke, because they are laughing at my accent.

I wasn’t prepared for my success at all. I went a bit doolally.

I wouldn’t be able to write a song like ‘Someone Like You’ and get someone else to sing it because it’s so personal. It’s like giving away your heart.

I’d lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you’re supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn’t be working with me.’

If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don’t know what I’ll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.

If I lost loads of weight, my tits would go saggy and then that would be the main issue.

If I’d never had a boyfriend because I was overweight, then obviously I would lose some weight but all the things I want I get, so I don’t care. I refuse to change because I’m in the public eye.

I’m a bit mouthy.

I’m an only child, I’m used to having people listen to me.

I’m like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.

I’m like the opposite of one of those comedians who’s funny on stage and depressed behind closed doors.

I’m nervous whenever I perform.

I’m not calling Beyonce old, even though she is contemporary, she is also a veteran.

I’m not going to write an egotistical record. Nobody can relate to winning two Grammys, unless it is another artist, you know. No one wants to hear a record about hotels and air miles. No one else is going to find that interesting. I’ve heard records like that. I’ve heard self-obsessed second records and I don’t like them.

I’m scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous I escaped out the fire exit. I’ve thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels I projectile vomited on someone. I just got to bear it. But I don’t like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.

In five years’ time I’d like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I’d like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I’d like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.

In the songs I can still be really direct but in interviews when I’m explaining my songs I shouldn’t be so direct about who they’re about.

It broke my heart when I wrote this record, so the fact that people are taking it to their hearts is like the best way to recover.’

It’s never been an issue for me – I don’t want to go on a diet, I don’t want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain’t got time for this, just be happy and don’t be stupid. If I’ve got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I’m not worried.

It’s the blues so I will go out of tune, but it’s all right, its all good.

It’s warts and all in my songs, and I think that’s why people can relate to them.

I’ve always been a size 14-16. I’m not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. People don’t need to use their bodies sexually to do well. If anyone told me to lose weight, I wouldn’t work with them any more. I don’t want to go on a diet; I don’t want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing. Why would I do that? Just be happy and don’t be stupid.

I’ve been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I’ve had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

I’ve got some news… I’m delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we’re over the moon.

I’ve learned the main thing in life is that you get what you put in.

I’ve never been more normal than I am now.

I’ve never seen magazine covers or music videos and been like, ‘I need to look like that if I want to be a success.’ I’ve never seen pictures of hot men and thought, ‘I have to change what I look like if I want to be with them.’ I don’t even need to if I want to sell more records. It’s not stopping me from doing anything and I don’t find that kind of thing attractive. I’ve never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I’m very proud of that.

I’ve only flown first class once, I drank so much free red wine I threw up in the toilet.

Making a record is like standing in the middle of Trafalgar Square naked, you let everyone see your good bits and bad bits. I don’t know what possesses me to do that, but I’m not good at anything else.

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn’t support me, so I am living her dream, it’s sweeter for both of us. It’s her 40th birthday soon and I’m going to buy her 40 presents.

My best friend Laura, is like Tina Fey on steroids.

My body doesn’t have any rhythm, you know. I’ve got quite good rhythm when I’m singing but my feet are very much two left feet.

My life is full of drama and I won’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.

My mom calls me jenny when I’m out in public.

My motto is that you shouldn’t kind of fuck me over.

My mum lives with me!

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

No matter what you look like, I think the key is to be happy with yourself. Exploiting yourself sexually is not a good look. People are starting to go on about my weight but I’m not going to change my size because they don’t like the way I look. People think that I’m fucking miserable. They are really surprised when they meet me that I’m chatty and bubbly and kind of quite carefree really. I’m the total opposite of my records.

Shabby, that’s how I describe myself.

Smoking is my thing.

So at 30 I’ll have my first bah-bee, be married, have a really nice three-storey family house in Clapham with a little picket fence and be writing songs for pop tarts.

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I’ve always been a size 14 to 16, I don’t care about clothes, I’d rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I’m writing about, and that’s why they always end up being so personal – because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, ‘Oh my God, this song is totally about me.’

There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It’s like, ‘Just let them run it, then. Don’t you give them ammunition.’

There’s nothing more beautiful then a cuddle.

This one’s about my ex… oh don’t worry, I’m playing The Greek, where the fuck is he?

Were not friends. That’s why were not together. So I don’t really care.

When I’m not singing on stage I’m usually loud and mouthy.

You can’t complain about your dressing room or you’ll look like Celine Dion.

You know when you love someone and they don’t love you? It’s the worst feeling ever. Isn’t it?