I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

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.

Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - its relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.

I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can't get there.

The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.

Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.

I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.

Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven’t been.