Quotes by Lily Allen

A lot of female artists, and male ones for that matter, are boring singers who don't say anything. Certainly not to my generation. With the kind of music I do you have to be direct and quite literal. I don't play an instrument, which really makes me focus on the vocal melody, and the lyrics are incredibly important to me. I don't want to be part of a scene, the whole idea of that makes me feel sick, and most of the music I listen to is by outsider figures, which is where I feel happiest.
- Lily Allen

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

Education is great for some people, but for me it just wasn't.
- Lily Allen

I always read a lot.
- Lily Allen

I became obsessed by quite arcane subjects.
- Lily Allen

I chose to make LDN a low key 7
- Lily Allen

I found out I had a heart murmur about three months ago. I had switched doctors and just went for a routine check up, which is when they discovered I had this irregular murmur. I have been asthmatic all my life, but this was really quite scary. When they asked me how much exercise I did, I had to be honest and say hardly any. I make sure I work out three times a week now, and I don't hold back.
- Lily Allen

I knew from an early age that I could never do a job where I'd have to sit in an office all day long.
- Lily Allen

I listened to punk, ska and reggae when I grew up, courtesy of my parents' record collections.
- Lily Allen

I must say that taking your clothes off, doing sexy dancing and marrying a rich footballer must be very gratifying, your mother must be so proud, stupid b*tch [to Cheryl Cole after she allegedly branded Lily as a 'chick with a d*ck']
- Lily Allen

I sometimes feel like my life is a bit empty - as ridiculous as that sounds to some people, a bit vacuous.
- Lily Allen

I started to feel like I could have a voice. But I wanted to write about my own world in an entertaining way. So I did.
- Lily Allen

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Quotes by Lily Allen

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