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.

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

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

My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

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.

It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!