Top 30 Lily Allen Quotes

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 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?

As a woman and as a mother, as a young mother, I felt guilty about being successful.

I had quite a turbulent upbringing. It was middle class, and everything was quite comfortable, but everyone was mental.

If you ask most people, ‘Who’s Lily Allen?,’ they’ll say, ‘That girl who’s in the papers all the time.’ Not that girl who wrote songs.

I’m not scared of anything.

My success was pretty overnight.

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

I just felt like I couldn’t deal with the everyday responsibilities of life, paying bills and all of that. I’m terrible at all of that. So I knew I had to make enough money to pay someone else to deal with all of that.

I had my mid-life crisis at 29. I’ve got my thirties and forties into the back end of my twenties.

Role models should be people that you know. Like your mum.

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.

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.

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

In an ideal world, the ‘Daily Mail’ would write about what a brilliant mother I am. But it’s not going to happen.

I used to be really envious of those kids who could do their homework and bring it in on time and were organised.

I don’t know how much money I’ve made, don’t know how many albums I’ve sold.

I’m always going to have an addictive personality.

I grew up in celebrity world, so I know what famous people are like, and I’ve never looked up to them in that way.

I never go out to be photographed, never. I go to events because they’re fun.

I don’t see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.

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.

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.

A lot of my honesty, and wanting to be as authentic as possible, came from coming out of bands like S Club 7 – things that felt glossy, you know? And with the rise of social media, there was an initial backlash against that glossiness, too. And then, I don’t know, somehow it managed to get lost again.

I think one of my big struggles with being famous in my early 20s was that there was a constant running commentary telling me who I was.

I was really rubbish at school.

Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it’s so historic as well.

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

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