Top 89 Quotes & Sayings by Lily Allen
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
My grandad was a submariner; my mum's dad was in the navy.
I don't know how much money I've made, don't know how many albums I've sold.
If you ask most people, 'Who's Lily Allen?,' they'll say, 'That girl who's in the papers all the time.' Not that girl who wrote songs.
I like to travel. I come from a travelling family.
In an ideal world, the 'Daily Mail' would write about what a brilliant mother I am. But it's not going to happen.
I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.
I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.
I'm not good at many things. But I really like songwriting, and I get a good reaction from it. There's not much that I do that causes a good reaction, so it feels like if I want to have good things happen, then I should do the things I'm good at. I mean, in all seriousness, I left school at 15. I'm unqualified to do anything else.
I grew up in celebrity world, so I know what famous people are like, and I've never looked up to them in that way.
I never go out to be photographed, never. I go to events because they're fun.
I just felt like I couldn't deal with the everyday responsibilities of life, paying bills and all of that. I'm terrible at all of that. So I knew I had to make enough money to pay someone else to deal with all of that.
I had my mid-life crisis at 29. I've got my thirties and forties into the back end of my twenties.
When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.
I think one of my big struggles with being famous in my early 20s was that there was a constant running commentary telling me who I was.
A lot of my honesty, and wanting to be as authentic as possible, came from coming out of bands like S Club 7 - things that felt glossy, you know? And with the rise of social media, there was an initial backlash against that glossiness, too. And then, I don't know, somehow it managed to get lost again.
With the first two albums and with my social media, I've always been very open about who I am.
I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.
I'm opinionated, but I'm not a vindictive person and I never say anything unprovoked, either.
Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.
I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know.
I'm always going to have an addictive personality.
All I know is that Conservatives aren't interested in helping anybody but themselves get richer.
Role models should be people that you know. Like your mum.
I was really rubbish at school.
I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.
Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.
I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong.
Everyone thinks Lily Allen is this brash, bold, funny person. It was all just a bit of a facade and bravado.
I think I'm like Marmite; you either love me or you hate me.
I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery.
I hang out with models, the biggest pop stars and, you know, really and honestly, I hate saying this, but none of them are achieving those body shapes by being healthy.
I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.
I don't care what people think of me now, so why would I care when I'm dead?
I think as long as you're not being malicious and you're not hurting people then you should not be ashamed of what you do.
I was guilty of appropriating when I did a video called 'Hard Out Here.' I was guilty of assuming that there was a one-size-fits-all where feminism is concerned.
The world is run on fear and shame. And I don't feel like we can begin to overcome these things until we speak about them openly and stop being scared of what happens as a result.
I had quite a turbulent upbringing. It was middle class, and everything was quite comfortable, but everyone was mental.
Yeah, I was a florist. I went to floristry school.
You have to be in love with yourself before anyone else can fall in love with you; to be happy with yourself.
I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.
I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.
I think, ever since I started doing well commercially, it's always been like, 'Oh, well, you're only where you are because of your dad, and it must be because of Mark Ronson and Greg Kurstin that you do well.' It's just everyone apart from me is responsible for the songs that I've written selling millions around the world.
As a woman and as a mother, as a young mother, I felt guilty about being successful.
My success was pretty overnight.
But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.
My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into place, and I'd be this perfect mum. And it didn't happen. I was very shocked and disappointed.
I used to be really envious of those kids who could do their homework and bring it in on time and were organised.
I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?
I'm really convinced I`m not talented at all, and I'm sure that people are just about to figure that out.
When I hit a period of not being able to write music, I get up and walk away. It's pretty mean but it's true.
All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal.
If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood.
I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain.
We're in the age of the selfie. It's just encouraging vanity. It's not even representative of anything except how you want people to perceive you. Think of when people are partying and having fun. They're like, "Hey, look at us!" You're obviously not having that much fun because otherwise you wouldn't be stopping to document it. It's stupid.
And I am a weapon of massive consumption
And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.
I don't really like the way that journalism works in the UK anyway; it's all about getting the most shocking thing out of somebody and kind of twisting people's words, which isn't really journalism, as far as I'm concerned.
I don't think men are the enemy. I think women are the enemy.
Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life.
People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.
Being on the road, the Internet enables me to interact with people in some way. It's not so much interacting with my fans - it's about doing something with what I have. I have my camera and I have my computer, and if I have some spare time, rather than watching some mindless bullshit pop-idol program on TV, why not show people my pictures and try and discuss things that I feel are important?
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