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All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal.

Lily Allen

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Lily Allen
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: May 2
Actor
Film Actor
Philanthropist
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Singer-Songwriter
Television Presenter
Hammersmith
London
Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper
Lily Beatrice Allen
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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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When I'm in New York my boyfriend buys me sneakers and vice versa.
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I don't think men are the enemy. I think women are the enemy.
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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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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.
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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 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.
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I am a weapon of massive consumption
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Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life.
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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 think people probably lie about not reading their own reviews. I don't think that's true - I've been to a lot of music festivals and hung out backstage, especially in the past couple of years, and I see all these bands reading about themselves in newspapers. So I don't think that's true.
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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.
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I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain.
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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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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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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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Yeah, I was a florist. I went to floristry school.
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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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I quite fancy Graham Coxon. I haven't met him yet, though. I'd like to.
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I always wanted to do music but never really had the confidence to do it until my first manager George Lamb, who I met out in Ibiza, encouraged me.
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