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
Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life.
If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood.
I'm a record collector. I'd spend all my pocket money on vinyl.
I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.
I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain.
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.
When I'm in New York my boyfriend buys me sneakers and vice versa.
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 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 think that education works up to a certain point... I think unless I wanted to be like a nurse, or a doctor, or something that required that kind of knowledge, then education is fine. But I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I didn't see the point in spending seven more years of my life studying something.
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.
I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.
I think I'm like Marmite; you either love me or you hate me.
I don't think men are the enemy. I think women are the enemy.