By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just be my hobby but now it's like my diary, it's where I can go in my own little bubble.

I think I was a mermaid and I used to swim the shores or Hawaii and used to pop up and see coconuts and pineapples everywhere.

Create a vision that makes you wanna jump out of bed in the morning.

Reggae music really chills me out in my dressing-room before I head on stage.

The simple questions are always the hardest ones.

When I do my vocal warm-ups everyone calls me the dolphin because I do stupid siren noises.

I always feel like when I've listened to a great song I know it, 'cuz it's the only time I'll ever get goosebumps or something like that.

I think we've all got a mirror man in our life - male, female, it's someone who love themselves before they can love anyone else.

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.

My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite 80's driven, so I was always surrounded by music growing up.

I definitely love music that's coming out now, there's some really exciting fresh artists coming through which is really cool. I guess it's from old and new, where my influences are based.

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.

Don't read it. Just shred and burn, or your eyes will melt.

You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

If it grows on a plant, it's healthy. If it's made in a plant, don't eat it.

What good is love if you never ask anything of it?

I would love to try action films.

Forget the adage buy low and sell high.