What do you think of your American contemporaries?
"Christina Aguilera has her own style too, so good on her. I don’t think anyone’s every told her to put on some leather chaps and get her noonie out. She’s an amazing singer but a lot of her music I can’t even hear, it’s the same with Britney’s music. I can’t listen to things when they are wasting Timbaland’s talent. Pink is wicked because she talks her mouth off and doesn’t give a ****."
You have plenty of body art in common with Pink…
"She’s got many tattoos and I’m trying so hard not to get more. I’ve only got three which I got all before the age of 18 and I swore to myself I wouldn’t get another one til I was 21. My Indian feather represents strength and bravery and I have a little Betty Boo on the bottom of my back, which I got when I was 15. It was supposed to be non-permanent and it’s terrible but it’s still there. And I have a big bird on my back with an Egyptian symbol around it and the American flag inside because my mum’s from Brooklyn."
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On Timbaland:
Have you met any of your current idols?
"I was performing at a private party for Missy Elliot and Timbaland last night and their table was right in front of me. They were bopping along to my songs and I told them from the stage I couldn’t look down at them because the two of them were my idols. I met them afterwards and put my arm around Timbaland … I didn’t want to be that sad bitch but I was. He said, ‘Hey I want to work with you’ and I’d have cut my left arm off to work with him if I didn’t need it to play the guitar. I told Missy I couldn’t believe how much she has done as a woman in a male-led arena and that she’s an inspiration to me. When I got into the lift back to my room to get changed and go home, I broke down in tears."
I had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it’s not about being loud, it’s about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.
Preach Amy!
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But if I read a story (one of my colleagues wrote) about Michael Jackson where they called him Wacko or mental or something, that really used to pissed me off. I’d go to the writer and say, ‘Michael Jackson is not ****ed up. Don’t write it again.’ I’d get really upset.
I wonder if she was still a stan of him in 2007.
so adorable
