Lily Allen
Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper, known professionally as Lily Allen, is an English singer, songwriter, actress, and television presenter. She is the daughter of Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Allen left school when she was 15 and concentrated on improving her performing and compositional skills. In 2005, she made some of her recordings public on Myspace and the publicity resulted in airplay on BBC Radio 1 and a contract with Regal Recordings...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth2 May 1985
CityLondon, England
And I am a weapon of massive consumption And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.
I never go out to be photographed, never. I go to events because they're fun.
We're in the age of the selfie. It's just encouraging vanity. It's not even representative of anything except how you want people to perceive you. Think of when people are partying and having fun. They're like, "Hey, look at us!" You're obviously not having that much fun because otherwise you wouldn't be stopping to document it. It's stupid.
I quite fancy Graham Coxon. I haven't met him yet, though. I'd like to.
In no way do I feel superior to anyone except paedophiles, rapists, murderers, etc.
People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.
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.
When I'm in New York my boyfriend buys me sneakers and vice versa.
Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.