If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

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.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you

It's not that he hated the wooden cube. It's what was inside it that he didn't like.

Time is really the only gift we receive from God that we can give to others.

Somebody's boring me I think it's me.

Whatever with the past has gone the best is always yet to come.

Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?

My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.

PayPal is a business that will be bigger than eBay.

It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.