Allen: "I don't care what people think of me now, so why would I care when I'm dead?"

Allen: "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."

Allen: "I'm opinionated, but I'm not a vindictive person and I never say anything unprovoked, either."

Allen: "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."

Allen: "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."

Allen: "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."

Allen: "I'm not scared of anything."

Allen: "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."

Allen: "I think I'm like Marmite; you either love me or you hate me."

Allen: "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?"

Allen: "As a woman and as a mother, as a young mother, I felt guilty about being successful."