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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Your close friends are essentially important in making you a person of high personal worth and success.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose - words in their best order poetry - the best words in their best order.

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.

Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life.

I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.

You have to bring books to explain your work.

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.

If we lose the ability in question for a single moment only, we are immediately being hijacked by an aggressive little "Think me!" and our mind begins to wander.