I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature... I've had enough of journos.

Lead me to the cross Where Your love poured out Bring me to my knees Lord I lay me down Rid me of myself I belong to You Lead me, lead me to the cross.

You can analyze all you want but you can never explain away the God factor. Sometimes God just decides to breathe on something and it's completely His prerogative.

The music that I make isn't really like any of the music that I listen to. I think I listen to cool music, but I know that I don't make cool music - so it's kind of funny!

I've always recognised that I have influence, whether I like it or not, and that I can use it to do something good.

I think I was always an old soul, even as a teenager.

At sixteen I was like: "I need to get an album out now!" - even though I was only sixteen. I was always in a little bit of a rush to be an adult.

I'm not quite sure where the sponsorship rumour came from... probably because I have been a spokesperson for child sponsorship so people just assumed that was the connection.

I learnt that music cost something, and that's a good thing. Also, that I should exercise, because I didn't and I got very sick.

I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style.

I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.

Smart means having intellectual humility rather than high cognitive ability.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists.

I enjoy life. I think I'll enjoy death even more. Life is too confusing.

If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie.

[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.

The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

I always think that fashion isn't just about clothes; it can be applied to anything.

Jesse Jackson and Al Not-So-Sharpton would be lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo that the policy and the president are racist and bigoted.

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.