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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.

Lily Allen

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Lily Allen
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: May 2
Actor
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Hammersmith
London
Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper
Lily Beatrice Allen
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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And I am a weapon of massive consumption And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.
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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.
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People recognize me all the time now, and there's lots of autograph hunting and smiling. But then I get to play gigs, which are amazing. It's a good job.
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I'm quite an opinionated person, but I'd never written a diary before. I quite like it!
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Yeah, I was a florist. I went to floristry school.
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I'm really convinced I`m not talented at all, and I'm sure that people are just about to figure that out.
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Nobody says anything real today. Most of those girls have their songs written by other people. It annoys me, because 'eh oh eh oh ahh' is not a chorus...
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If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood.
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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.
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I was a drug dealer in Ibiza at 15. I did not excel in drug dealing - I was terrible at it. Golden rule with drug dealing - don't get too enthusiastic with your own merchandise.
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All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal.
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I know lots of people that take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work every day, no problem. But we never hear that side of the story.
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But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.
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I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.
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