I always feel like music should be a universal language.

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.

I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.

It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.

My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.

I live out of my suitcase and I'm happy to do so.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

When you're with your family you're with them and when you're working you're doing that. I definitely try to separate the time when I'm working and when I have my personal time.

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

Love is holy.

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.

Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one