I don't know if fame will come.

I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see.

Ice cream is my comfort food.

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

I did my dissertation on Kafka.

I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality that isn't necessarily now.

If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.

My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.

I like how strong Sade is and how she doesn't give away too much.

I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.

Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.

The mind work sometimes in life as it does in a dream. It makes substitutions...

Try your best to be caring and loving in your daily encounters with people. You could end up giving hope to someone who has given up on humanity.

There is no worse evil than a bad woman and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

Energy cogeneration on Capitol Hill makes economic and environmental sense and should be pursued for those reasons.

Our debt to our men and women in uniform is eternal, always will be. To all of those who have served our nation, I say so strongly that I will never, ever let you down.

It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.

"Snapped" happened maybe like two months after I released the mixtape. I just like took a break from recording and that was the first song I wrote and recorded after the mixtape.

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.