I think we've all got a mirror man in our life - male, female, it's someone who love themselves before they can love anyone else.

I think I was a mermaid and I used to swim the shores or Hawaii and used to pop up and see coconuts and pineapples everywhere.

Create a vision that makes you wanna jump out of bed in the morning.

Reggae music really chills me out in my dressing-room before I head on stage.

The simple questions are always the hardest ones.

When I do my vocal warm-ups everyone calls me the dolphin because I do stupid siren noises.

I always feel like when I've listened to a great song I know it, 'cuz it's the only time I'll ever get goosebumps or something like that.

By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just be my hobby but now it's like my diary, it's where I can go in my own little bubble.

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.

My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite 80's driven, so I was always surrounded by music growing up.

I definitely love music that's coming out now, there's some really exciting fresh artists coming through which is really cool. I guess it's from old and new, where my influences are based.

[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.

Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.

There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

We punch people, Valkyrie. That’s who we are. Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.

Twitchy little ferret, aren't you, Malfoy?

I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.

Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.