I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.

My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.

I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.

I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.

I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.