Top 50 Lily Allen Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I think I’m like Marmite; you either love me or you hate me.”

— Lily Allen

2. “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.”

— Lily Allen

3. “I am a weapon of massive consumption.”

— Lily Allen

4. “I don’t care what people think of me now, so why would I care when I’m dead?”

— Lily Allen

5. “I’m opinionated, but I’m not a vindictive person and I never say anything unprovoked, either.”

— Lily Allen

6. “I don’t think men are the enemy. I think women are the enemy.”

— Lily Allen

7. “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.”

— Lily Allen

8. “If you can’t detect the sarcasm you’ve misunderstood.”

— Lily Allen

9. “I still think I’m fat. Right now I’m worrying about how I’m going to lose weight after the pregnancy. I feel like an elephant, but I do get the occasional sexy pregnant day where I think I look great.”

— Lily Allen

10. “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.”

— Lily Allen

11. “Yeah, I was a florist. I went to floristry school.”

— Lily Allen

12. “I’m quite an opinionated person, but I’d never written a diary before. I quite like it!”

— Lily Allen

13. “Britney Spears is a legend.”

— Lily Allen

14. “As for drugs, it annoys me that people think it’s the worst thing in the world compared with, say, not paying your taxes. If you don’t pay tax, you may be stealing from someone who needs an operation. As for me and drugs or alcohol: No thanks, I’m abstaining for a while.”

— Lily Allen

15. “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.”

— Lily Allen

16. “When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in – that’s when I realized I had a voice.”

— Lily Allen

17. “You have to be in love with yourself before anyone else can fall in love with you; to be happy with yourself.”

— Lily Allen

18. “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.”

— Lily Allen

19. “Staying in with you is better than sticking things up my nose.”

— Lily Allen

20. “I’m a record collector. I’d spend all my pocket money on vinyl.”

— Lily Allen

21. “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.”

— Lily Allen

22. “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.”

— Lily Allen

23. “The Mail Online is like carbs – you know you shouldn’t but you do. Probably two or three times a day.”

— Lily Allen

24. “I don’t like being put in the same category as people because we have the same genitals and boobs. Nobody is going to write “Lily Allen vs. Ed Sheeran.” It just doesn’t happen.”

— Lily Allen

25. “Periods. We all get periods. Once a month, yeah. That’s what the theory is.”

— Lily Allen

26. “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.”

— Lily Allen

27. “Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn’t be so much about me.”

— Lily Allen

28. “I quite fancy Graham Coxon. I haven’t met him yet, though. I’d like to.”

— Lily Allen

29. “I don’t see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.”

— Lily Allen

30. “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.”

— Lily Allen

31. “In no way do I feel superior to anyone except paedophiles, rapists, murderers, etc.”

— Lily Allen

32. “Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life.”

— Lily Allen

33. “But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.”

— Lily Allen

34. “I want to go to the gym every day, otherwise I feel really bad. I just want to get more toned and healthy.”

— Lily Allen

35. “I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know.”

— Lily Allen

36. “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.”

— Lily Allen

37. “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.”

— Lily Allen

38. “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.”

— Lily Allen

39. “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.”

— Lily Allen

40. “Cheryl Cole, if you’re reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.”

— Lily Allen

41. “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.”

— Lily Allen

42. “I’ve actually broken up with boyfriends for inspiration.”

— Lily Allen

43. “I like them old and rich.”

— Lily Allen

44. “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.”

— Lily Allen

45. “When I’m in New York my boyfriend buys me sneakers and vice versa.”

— Lily Allen

46. “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.”

— Lily Allen

47. “All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They’re very literal.”

— Lily Allen

48. “I’m really convinced I’m not talented at all, and I’m sure that people are just about to figure that out.”

— Lily Allen

49. “I’ve always listened to music, since I was really, really young.”

— Lily Allen

50. “I don’t really like the way that journalism works in the UK anyway; it’s all about getting the most shocking thing out of somebody and kind of twisting people’s words, which isn’t really journalism, as far as I’m concerned.”

— Lily Allen