“I know I love going to my gym - I have a whole list of things I love t...” — Mabel Quote

“I know I love going to my gym - I have a whole list of things I love to do by myself without needing someone else to make me happy.”

“Swedes celebrate Christmas Eve. Every Sunday leading up to Christmas, we light a candle, then make gingerbread and saffron buns.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Destiny's Child's harmonies remind me of Earth, Wind & Fire.”

“I'm just trying to be myself and encourage other young women to be themselves.”

“I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.”

“I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.”

“The back story of a songwriter isn't important to me - I don't listen to music needing to know who the guy is.”

“Mother' is not just about the physical mother but the fact of needing to be mothered, needing to have something that surrounded me.”

“When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's less about learning about myself and more about just needing to get things out sometimes.”

“With all strikers, it's just about needing a bit of confidence.”