I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.

Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop, she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.

I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person.

The tyrant’s formula for every genocide since the beginning of time: differentiate, divide, destroy.

He can read and write, but he doesn't get what he's read. He's half-baked. The country is full of people like him, I'll tell you that. And we entrust our glourious parliamentary democracy

I am the only girl in the family so everyone pampered me.

I used the Deep Cleansing Masque on my wedding day because I wanted everything - including my complexion - to be perfect!

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.

Hip Hop will always have a lane of its own, for those that appreciate the culture.

I'm kinda wishy-washy about questions. If you ask me again tomorrow, I'm likely to give you completely different answers.

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

If the world had attended me after World War II, it would have been united within seven years, and there would have been no suffering of the Unification Church and no damage to the democratic world.