Jessie J can’t go on tour without her special pillow case.
The ‘Burnin’ Up’ hitmaker has several items she has to have with her on the road so she doesn’t get homesick and feels happy travelling, and the pillow case is top of the list.
She revealed to BANG Showbiz: "I usually have around 10 personal suitcases for any trips to the US or further when I’m going to be away for several weeks.
"I have to take my own pillow case and I take candles that I have in my house, so that my hotel room smells like my house. I take anything which keeps me sane, like pictures of my family. But the pillow case is really important; I don’t want to put my face on someone else’s pillow – gross!"
Jessie – who is heading on tour next year in support of her album ‘Sweet Talker’ – is aware that the public sometimes think pop stars are diva-ish when it comes to their demands but she says her brother-in-law sympathises with her requirements after seeing firsthand how hard she works.
She explained: "My brother-in-law was talking to me the other day and he said, ‘So when you go to hotels you ask for stuff?’ And I was like yeah there are a few things you ask for. And he was like, ‘I remember reading about people when I was younger who demanded specific things and I thought they were divas. But now I’m related to you and I see what you go through, I understand that when you’re travelling this much a hotel room pretty much becomes your house, there are things that make you feel comfortable and with the amount you work, you deserve that. You deserve those things.’
The things you ask for are so small but they make the biggest difference, like a humidifier to make the room’s energy a singer’s energy. So it’s important to make yourself feel settled to be able to work because it’s bloody tiring being on the road. It’s bloody hard."
Jessie J needs tour pillow
