Katy B

When I do a festival, I want everyone to have a party, I think it is kind of similar to a club…

— Katy B

I've always known my own mind, and I'm not shy about speaking it.

— Katy B

I've never really compared myself to anyone who's a big star - I'm not trying to be a fashion icon or get…

— Katy B

When I hear the same formula being used over and over, I get bored. Just as huge pop artists have taken inspiration…

— Katy B

Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.

— Katy B

The nice way to meet a guy is through getting to know them first. Then you can really judge their personality. What…

— Katy B

People expect you to be this weird cartoon sometimes when you're a musician. I hate that. I hate standing out. I hate…

— Katy B

My mum loved Joan Armatrading and used to play her records all the time and even took me to see her a…

— Katy B

I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm…

— Katy B

I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.

— Katy B

Someone asked me the other day what my favourite record shop was, and I said YouTube.

— Katy B

A lot of people say I'm like a pop girl, but I don't know what that means.

— Katy B

When I got the beat, in my imagination I was catapulted into this club where all the boys and girls are looking…

— Katy B

I love writing songs where the name is the title.

— Katy B

I would love to have the biggest band that I can have. I'd love to put on a massive show and just…

— Katy B

I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don't go to pull a…

— Katy B

I'd love to be the new Jools Holland, but you know, for, like, cooler people.

— Katy B

I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around, trying to figure…

— Katy B

When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British…

— Katy B

What I do and where I come from, the kind of music that I'm making, it's definitely U.K. If I turned around…

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Whenever I'm making something, the challenge is always to create something that's interesting for me to listen to.

— Katy B

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

— Katy B

I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better…

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I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster…

— Katy B

Things go in cycles. It's like fashion, like flares go out then skinny jeans come in, people want something fresh. It's the…

— Katy B