“The ultimate goal was to find my way somehow to the Brit awards.” — Raye Quote

“The ultimate goal was to find my way somehow to the Brit awards.”

“As a woman in and out of this industry, I've been through a lot of nasty, traumatic things that I bottled up, didn't talk about, buried.”

“I'm very opinionated and I really believed in a lot of things.”

“Book awards - in America, at least - are not like the Oscars. Awards are not cumulative, and in the case of something like the Pulitzers, the jurors often have another goal in mind: sales. They know that the Pulitzer stamp can sell a book.”

“I don't think about awards when I set out to do something. If that happens, it's great.”

“I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.”