What gives you real power is when you know your power. And I feel quite powerful. — Mabel Copy Share Image
You have to be so careful with your voice, especially when you're using it every day. — Mabel Copy Share Image
I think knowing where you came from and where you want to go is really important. — Mabel Copy Share Image
I found being a teenager quite difficult, actually. I put a lot of pressure on myself, and now, looking back at it,… — Mabel Copy Share Image
I remember trying so hard to get into Bon Iver. I'd lie in bed listening with my eyes screwed up, like, 'This… — Mabel Depressing Copy Share Image
All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever. — Mabel Creating music Copy Share Image
It was such a wake-up call going to music school and being one among so many that are really good at singing. — Mabel Being Copy Share Image
Whenever I have a bad day, I tell everybody around me, 'Just so guys know I am having a bad day and… — Mabel Copy Share Image
I want to make people dance, I want to make people smile, and I want my music to get played in clubs. — Mabel Dance Copy Share Image
Producing isn't my favourite bit about what I do, but the fact that I know how to do it gives me this… — Mabel Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to loads of afrobeats; my grandad's Sierra Leonean, so that was always around. My mum loves those kind… — Mabel Copy Share Image
Young women look at me and think, 'She's really confident. She has always had it figured out,' but actually, I really, really… — Mabel Confident Copy Share Image
I think there is a misconception that being open and honest and saying what it is you want is something we should… — Mabel Honest Copy Share Image
I feel incredibly lucky to have grown up with creative parents and around creative people, many of whom live with anxiety. My… — Mabel Anxiety Copy Share Image
I'm not embarrassed to say I want to be successful, but only on my terms. — Mabel Embarrassed Copy Share Image
Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence. — Mabel Confidence Copy Share Image
I don't want to be all over the place with my style and my music, but I am experimenting. — Mabel Copy Share Image
Swedes celebrate Christmas Eve. Every Sunday leading up to Christmas, we light a candle, then make gingerbread and saffron buns. — Mabel Candle Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I would listen to Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake, Aaliyah: lots of '90s R&B. — Mabel Child Copy Share Image
I'm really good at the '90s slow jams. I've got that down. But I love to dance, so why wouldn't I make… — Mabel Dance Copy Share Image
I think growing up, people want to put you in a box and label you quite often, just because it's kind of… — Mabel Copy Share Image
I don't actually get that many DMs. I tell myself that it's because guys might be intimidated, but I'm not that sure. — Mabel Copy Share Image
A couple of days out of the month, I talk to my stylist, and we just get a big chunk of looks… — Mabel Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough… — Mabel Copy Share Image
I've been in two long-term relationships and - this sounds awful - they were really helpful for writing heartbreak. It makes good… — Mabel Copy Share Image
I'm such a control freak that camping, for me, is difficult. I can't be this crazy, carefree person that wears the same… — Mabel Camping Copy Share Image
I moved from Stockholm to London, and I didn't want to work with my parents or have them help me in any… — Mabel Help Copy Share Image
I want to be an artist that grows slowly. If you appear overnight, there's a chance that you will also just disappear… — Mabel Art Copy Share Image
Gigs are my favourite thing - even the not so good ones, because you always learn something. — Mabel Copy Share Image
I know I love going to my gym - I have a whole list of things I love to do by myself… — Mabel Exercise Copy Share Image
That's why I love music - because I'm such a control freak, and it's the only thing that I can't really control. — Mabel Control Copy Share Image
