I don't want your future, I don't need your past. One bright moment Is all I ask.

Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.

I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

I like a house party and fancy dress, a big fan of fancy dress, like dress up, costume parties.

I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.

Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful.

If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that.

I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don’t know… It’s like some kind of euphoria, that love can’t bring to you.

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.

She pushed my chest like she wanted me off of her, but her fingers had my shirt clutched in them and I knew she was full of shit. She wanted me.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

You make mistakes and you learn from them.

The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team.

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon.

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

She was born in Baton Rouge, her favorite song was In My Life.