Lily Allen Quotes

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

If I could dance like the ladies can, it would have been my arse on your screens

I hang out with models, the biggest pop stars and, you know, really and honestly, I hate saying this, but none of them are achieving those body shapes by being healthy.

I think people probably lie about not reading their own reviews. I don't think that's true - I've been to a lot of music festivals and hung out backstage, especially in the past couple of years, and I see all these bands reading about themselves in newspapers. So I don't think that's true.

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

You have to be in love with yourself before anyone else can fall in love with you; to be happy with yourself.

All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal.

Nobody says anything real today. Most of those girls have their songs written by other people. It annoys me, because 'eh oh eh oh ahh' is not a chorus

When I'm in New York my boyfriend buys me sneakers and vice versa.

I was a drug dealer in Ibiza at 15. I did not excel in drug dealing - I was terrible at it. Golden rule with drug dealing - don't get too enthusiastic with your own merchandise.

When I hit a period of not being able to write music, I get up and walk away. It's pretty mean but it's true.

The Mail Online is like carbs - you know you shouldn't but you do. Probably two or three times a day

I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.

I've actually broken up with boyfriends for inspiration.

I think as long as you're not being malicious and you're not hurting people then you should not be ashamed of what you do.

Why is there even a conversation about feminism?

Being on the road, the Internet enables me to interact with people in some way. It's not so much interacting with my fans - it's about doing something with what I have. I have my camera and I have my computer, and if I have some spare time, rather than watching some mindless bullshit pop-idol program on TV, why not show people my pictures and try and discuss things that I feel are important?

People recognize me all the time now, and there's lots of autograph hunting and smiling. But then I get to play gigs, which are amazing. It's a good job.

I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.

What a waste of headspace. What a waste of consciousness. What an insult to every person struggling with illness or poverty or homelessness. What a diss to the sunshine and the sky and the birdsong and to any number of small pleasures or preoccupations that could have more joyfully and usefully occupied space …

I like them old and rich.

Periods. We all get periods. Once a month, yeah. That's what the theory is

You know what, my new mantra is this: ANT AND DEC. Ant and Dec. I might get their names tattooed on each wrist. Because they smile, and they never complain, and it seems to work for them and I wish I could be more like that.

I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery.

I can get on with someone really, really, really well ... and if they're no good at having sex with me, it really upsets me, because I think, oh God, this is someone I'd really like to spend the rest of my life with, but I cannot face having bad sex for the rest of my life.

I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?

Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.

If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood.

When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.

Yeah, I was a florist. I went to floristry school.

I got really offended when my single 'Smile' got banned [during after-school hours] from MTV in the U.K. because it had the word fuck in it. They said, 'We don't want kids to grow up too quickly.' But then you have Paris Hilton and the Pussycat Dolls taking their clothes off and gyrating up against womanizing, asshole men, and that's acceptable. You're thinking your kids are gonna grow up quicker because they heard the word fuck than from thinking they should be shoving their tits in people's faces?

Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life.

I think that education works up to a certain point ... I think unless I wanted to be like a nurse, or a doctor, or something that required that kind of knowledge, then education is fine. But I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I didn't see the point in spending seven more years of my life studying something.

I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong.

I think I'm like Marmite; you either love me or you hate me.

I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know.

I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain.

I'm opinionated, but I'm not a vindictive person and I never say anything unprovoked, either.