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I was a sensitive kid.
Mabel
Kid
Sensitive
I want to be known for my music, and that takes time.
Mabel
Music
Time
Takes
Known
Want
I really wanted to find my own path.
Mabel
Path
Own
Find
My Own
Wanted
Really
My first-ever radio interview was with Annie Mac on Radio 1!
Mabel
Interview
Mac
Annie
Radio
I am very much my own person and my own artist.
Mabel
Own
My Own
Am
Very
Person
Artist
Much
I think people look back at the '90s as a golden era of female empowerment.
Mabel
People
Think
Back
Look
Empowerment
Female
Era
Golden
I like to spend time alone before I go on stage.
Mabel
Alone
Time
Before
Stage
Spend
Like
Go
I definitely idolised Beyonce growing up.
Mabel
Definitely
Beyonce
Up
Growing
Growing Up
I'm not embarrassed to say I want to be successful, but only on my terms.
Mabel
Say
Embarrassed
Only
Terms
Want
Successful
I must have been five or six when I realised all the stuff I was writing made sense with what I was playing on the piano.
Mabel
Writing
Made
Sense
Must
Piano
Stuff
Been
Five
Six
Realised
Playing
It was such a wake-up call going to music school and being one among so many that are really good at singing.
Mabel
Music
Good
School
Singing
Call
Wake-Up Call
Going
Being
Really
Many
Among
I want to be an artist that grows slowly. If you appear overnight, there's a chance that you will also just disappear overnight.
Mabel
You
Will
Slowly
Disappear
Also
Overnight
Artist
Just
Want
Appear
Grows
Chance
I don't want to be all over the place with my style and my music, but I am experimenting.
Mabel
Music
Style
Over
Am
Want
Experimenting
Place
I lived wherever my parents felt like making music, which had its ups and downs - I've had to move schools, but I've also seen a lot of amazing places and been on tour with my parents.
Mabel
Music
Amazing
Ups And Downs
Seen
Parents
Tour
Had
Like
Also
Schools
Felt
Making
Been
Lot
Move
Ups
Wherever
Which
Places
Downs
Lived
I moved from Stockholm to London, and I didn't want to work with my parents or have them help me in any way, I think just to prove to myself that I have my own talent.
Mabel
Work
Myself
Me
Parents
Own
Think
Way
London
My Own
Talent
Prove
Stockholm
Any
Just
Moved
Want
Them
Help
I put a song on Soundcloud, and Annie Mac made it record of the week, and a month later, I signed my record deal.
Mabel
Song
Made
Later
Mac
Month
Signed
Record
Record Deal
Week
Put
Annie
Deal
Destiny's Child's harmonies remind me of Earth, Wind & Fire.
Mabel
Me
Wind
Fire
Harmonies
Earth
Destiny
Remind
Child
'Finders Keepers' is guaranteed to create a vibe. If I'm having a difficult show, then I know I've got that song at the end to turn it around, and the phones will come out.
Mabel
Phones
Song
Will
Difficult
Out
Having
Come
Know
Around
Got
End
Vibe
Turn
Then
Create
Show
Keepers
Guaranteed
I went to Glastonbury when I was 14, and that was really fun.
Mabel
Really
Fun
I've been in two long-term relationships and - this sounds awful - they were really helpful for writing heartbreak. It makes good songs.
Mabel
Good
Writing
Relationships
Songs
Long-Term
Makes
Sounds
Were
Been
Heartbreak
Really
Helpful
Awful
Two
I wouldn't be who I am if my parents hadn't been musicians.
Mabel
Musicians
Parents
Am
Been
Who
It sounds really cheesy, but as a woman, I feel like I sort of found myself.
Mabel
Myself
Woman
Feel
Like
Sort
Cheesy
Sounds
Really
Found
I grew up in a house full of musicians, and my mum really taught me that when you listen to an album, you respect that it's somebody's art, and that the B-sides are just as important as the singles, and we should really listen to the album all the way through the way it was intended to be listened to.
Mabel
Art
Me
You
Musicians
Respect
Somebody
Important
Way
Through
House
Singles
Up
Intended
Listen
Listened
Just
Taught
Grew
Really
Should
Full
Mum
Album
I want people to really care when I release an album.
Mabel
People
Care
Release
Want
Really
Album
Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough to be white.
Mabel
Confused
Black
White
Enough
About
Like
Identity
Felt
Up
Growing
Growing Up
There's so many R&B songs where guys are talking about a clingy girl, like, 'I don't want a girlfriend, and this girl's so clingy, and blah blah blah.' But I'm a woman, and I've been in situations that have been the reverse of that, so I wanted to tell that story.
Mabel
Woman
Girl
Tell
Girlfriend
About
Guys
Blah
Songs
Like
Talking
Reverse
Been
Situations
Where
Want
Wanted
Story
Many
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