I feel so blessed that I grew up in the age of the independent woman, the survivor. I had Destiny's Child telling me I didn't need a man to feel good about myself, and I want to carry on that message.Collection: Age
Swedes celebrate Christmas Eve. Every Sunday leading up to Christmas, we light a candle, then make gingerbread and saffron buns.Collection: Christmas
There's so many inspiring women dominating the charts, so I feel like I'm definitely a part of a wave that's just really interesting and really cool.Collection: Cool
I want to make people dance, I want to make people smile, and I want my music to get played in clubs.Collection: Smile
I feel incredibly lucky to have grown up with creative parents and around creative people, many of whom live with anxiety. My mum would sometimes say that it was a beautiful thing, and that it would come in handy when making music - and it's made me a more empathetic person.Collection: Music
Being a solo artist in general can be incredibly lonely. It's funny how often the bigger you get sometimes, the lonelier you feel.Collection: Funny
Just enjoy every moment - don't stress. Just be yourself.
Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough to be white.
I want to be an artist that grows slowly. If you appear overnight, there's a chance that you will also just disappear overnight.
I'm such a control freak that camping, for me, is difficult. I can't be this crazy, carefree person that wears the same outfit for four days.
What gives you real power is when you know your power. And I feel quite powerful.
I think growing up, people want to put you in a box and label you quite often, just because it's kind of easier, I guess.
Being mainstream is fun.
I think the best thing that I can do is be myself. I don't know about being a role model; I think placing that sort of title on myself is too much. It's trying to be this thing that puts loads of pressure on something.
Having a Top 10 record changed my life a lot, you know?
I'm not embarrassed to say I want to be successful, but only on my terms.
I'm just trying to be myself and encourage other young women to be themselves.
I have a lot of energy in general, and I am pretty crazy.
I work hard, and I'm very separate from what my parents do.
Coming from an R&B background, I was like, 'I'm gonna make slow jams.'
I wish I could teleport and cut out the travelling in between gigs. I want the luxury of the shows without the painful bits stuck on a tour bus.
In the bathroom, having taken my make-up off and opened my eyes, I always think there's a ghost behind me. It feels like there's a weird presence. Maybe it's my brain reacting to me without make-up.
Harry Styles threw a cream pie at my face in front of 15,000 people to thank me for the months we spent on the road.
I was a sensitive kid.
I think there's something amazing about British soul.
I want to be known for my music, and that takes time.
I really wanted to find my own path.
My first-ever radio interview was with Annie Mac on Radio 1!
The important thing is that my music is getting a positive reaction and that people are connecting with it.
All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever.
I grew up listening to loads of afrobeats; my grandad's Sierra Leonean, so that was always around. My mum loves those kind of beats, too.
Youssou N'Dour was really important to me growing up.
I've been working a lot with this girl Kelly Kiara. She's amazing. She's going to be super important for R&B coming out of the U.K.
I am very much my own person and my own artist.
I think people look back at the '90s as a golden era of female empowerment.
I like to spend time alone before I go on stage.
I'm not going to lie: I'd love to win a Grammy.
I definitely idolised Beyonce growing up.
I must have been five or six when I realised all the stuff I was writing made sense with what I was playing on the piano.
You have to be so careful with your voice, especially when you're using it every day.
It was such a wake-up call going to music school and being one among so many that are really good at singing.
I don't want to be all over the place with my style and my music, but I am experimenting.
I just want to make music that makes people feel good about themselves.
I lived wherever my parents felt like making music, which had its ups and downs - I've had to move schools, but I've also seen a lot of amazing places and been on tour with my parents.
My mum is one of my style icons!
Kehlani is so refreshing in terms of R&B.
I'm the biggest Drake fan - my favorite is 'Tuscan Leather' because it's like three songs in one, and for somebody that's obsessed with keys, the outro has the best keys ever.
I moved from Stockholm to London, and I didn't want to work with my parents or have them help me in any way, I think just to prove to myself that I have my own talent.
I put a song on Soundcloud, and Annie Mac made it record of the week, and a month later, I signed my record deal.
I'm pretty much writing all the time.