1. Double Page Spread Idea’s
Rolling In the Deep.
What made you to create this song, because it seems like a kind of ‘In your
face’ song?
Yeah well, it was my reaction to being told my life is going to be boring and lonely and rubbish and
that I was a weak person if I wasn’t able to stay in a relationship. So yeah, I was rather insulted so
decided to write it as a kind of F*** you... It takes a lot of s*** to upset me and make me crazy, so
when I’m about to get angry my heart, I can really feel my blood flowing around my body.
Once you roughly wrote the song, how did you take it further to be sure it
was what you wanted for your album?
Well I went to Paul Network and um, it turned out to be exactly what they had in mind to do with
me I suppose, I wasn’t really expecting a major reaction cos he is known for being very “Indie” and
I’m known for being very “Pop” so I wasn’t sure if it would end too well but it ended up being a
match made in heaven really.
Rumour Has It.
What is the story behind ‘Rumour Has It’?
Well after working all day I would come home and try and re-link up with all my friends and catch
up, I’d go for lunch or whatever go out for a night out and like my friends would be like ‘Oh so I
heard your seeing blah blah, hope you’re not seeing him cos I heard he f***ed her and I heard, oh
and I heard you with him’ and all this stuff you know so like my own friends were gossiping about
me you know what I mean and like it’s got nothing, I think some people might think cos it’s called
‘Rumour Has It’ I think people might think it’s about blogs and magazines and paper’s but it’s not
it’s about my own friends making up or believing something they hear you know I just, it’s pretty
mortifying.
Turning Tables.
How did ‘Turning Tables’ come About?
It is the 2n one of the two tracks I wrote with Ryan. The Grammy in 2009, we were both staying in
the same hotel and I got in the elevator with about one hundred heart balloons and then Ryan got
in as well and all he could hear was my cackle, and he was kinda searching through all the balloons
to find me and then we were like amazing we defiantly have to work together now. I arrived and I
was quite upset cos I was kinda in the middle of all the rubbish that was going on at home and I
turned up and I was just going who the f*** does he, I didn’t know Ryan at this point by the way
but was like who the f*** does he think he is, always f***ing turns the tables on me. So then he
took that turning table you know he kinda come up with the phase which I loved.

2. Double Page Spread Idea’s
Don’t You Remember.
We know the song and lyrics is about a man who you loved by what
emotions are behind the lyrics, what made you use them?
It got to the point where I managed to step out of the mode I was in when I was writing the record
and I then suddenly felt that I was kind of analyzing my songs then looking back at the lyrics then
listening to the vocals and all that and I suddenly got really ashamed and disgusted of the manor I
was betraying someone who was really important to me, I felt really bad and felt childish that I
made him out as being a complete twat. I just thought of kinda reminiscing of how at the
beginning like my skin would tingle any time he ever touched me and I’d wait by my phone and be
like going crazy cos he didn’t text me back within 10 seconds and stuff like that and I was sorta
thinking about stuff like that and I bet he doesn’t remember why he loved me you know so it was
just kinda like that.
He Won’t Go
Now this record is really personal to one of your friends as we know, but why
did you decide to produce the song?
Well it’s about two friends of mine that I met after the first record, I was home and I was living on
my own, settled into my new flat and um sorta had no like normal friends in my area it was all
kinda work friends or someone I had met through work and I met these two lovers of dogs and
shortly after, about a couple of weeks after I found out that he was a heroin addict and was kind
of on his journey to go into rehab. Their bond with each other that kinda over road, kinda came
everything that was going on. It really, really touched me and really, really moved me and um I’m
so proud of them both and I’m proud of him, he’s been clean for over a year now and it’s just you
know it’s just quite exciting, quite kind of seeing a new life happen when your kinda 30 odd.
Take It All
What is ‘Take it all’ mainly about?
It is written with Ed, who I did Chasing Pavements and Melt My Heart To Stone and Tired with on
the first record. I can’t really remember how Take It All came about, he played a cord and I just
started singing it and it’s about my devotion to someone and them not caring really and taking the
p*** out of me and like kind of exploiting me I guess in a way and literally it was just as I sang it
the lyrics happened it wasn’t sort of sitting there writing about it, it was literally like imagine
sitting down with someone and saying that this really isn’t working cos your making me look like a
mug, it was literally like something out of West side story.

3. Double Page Spread Idea’s
One and Only
So, this song is also about a guy, but is it the same guy as the rest or someone
new in your life?
No, it’s not about the same guy, it’s a happy song! It’s about someone that I’ve known for years
and we’ve always really liked each other and never been together um even though I’m pretty
convinced I’m probably going to marry this guy in the end. And when I wrote the middle eight, it
was really cheesy. The night before I wrote the middle eight I watched ‘Never Been Kissed’ with
Drew Barrymore in it and you know at the end where she describes as being kissed as the whole
world slows down and goes in slow motion and everything else goes blurry and the only thing in
focus is her and that fitty guy that whoever’s playing that other character and I kinda see it like
that. Even though I don’t think ‘Never Been kissed’ is an epic movie but I can kinda imagine bring
in the middle of Trafalgar Square, don’t know why I would be in the middle of Trafalgar Square
kissing someone but and the whole world is slowing down and it being a bit like a fairytale but
yeah it’s a bit of a sorta daydreaming song I suppose.
Lovesong
You said this song is for you mum, how did it come about?
My first concert ever was the cure at Fingy Park and my mum took me, it’s such a touching song
and it’s all one take and it’s very raw and it’s sad and it’s cos I’m missing home and it’s the whole
experience of being in Malibu, it was a bit over whelming, not in a sad way but I felt quite heavy
sort of you know by it all you know and that song sorta set me free a little bit and I sang it for my
mum and it’s a really stunning recording, the sounds and everything about it is just amazing in the
way it’s all recorded and my voice had gone as well which I was a bit kinda paranoid about but it
actually suits the song really, really well.
Someone Like You
How would you overall summarise ‘Someone Like You’?
Someone like you is the last song on the record that was again I guess I go a little well when I was
writing it I was feeling pretty miserable and pretty lonely which I guess is kind of contradicts
Rolling In The Deep when I was like I’m gonna to be fine without you this one was me kind of on
my knees really. Yeah I mean that relationship, the entire records about that is really summed up
in the Someone Like You was, changed me in a really good way it kind of well really made me who
I am at the moment, you know I’m sure there will be another relationship, well I hope so anyway,
that it helps change me and defines me as well but I can imagine being about 40 and looking for
him again and turning up and he’s settled and he’s got a beautiful wife and some beautiful kids
and he’s completely happy and I’m still on my own, it’s kind of about that and I’m quite scared at
the thought of that you know it’s kind of all in that.

4. Double Page Spread Idea’s
How do you feel about your last album 19?
On 19 I feel like I sounded a lot younger and I sounded really naive and childish and innocent and
dumb on it I think, even though a lot of people always think its mature and that I’m wise beyond
my years I don’t at all think I was, and on this one you know I kind of, well I know a bit more about
myself and I’m accepting things now like rejection. I’m fine with it. I’m an adult. It upsets me but I
can deal with it do you know what I mean and its doesn’t make me question myself that much
even though it probably should make me question it, but I think this entire record is a bit more
kind of grown up and mature and sincere. Like that lyric that was just said from Someone Like You
‘I Wish Nothing But The Best For You’ it’s kind of stubborn I’m being stubborn even though I’m
saying it but you know you can’t really hold grudges forever cos it just weighs you down and that
something that I only learnt in the last year while vie kinda been recovering from everything that
happened and I feel better for it I feel lighter and healthier for not dwelling on things really.