Pop music should be about young people.

I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.

Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

Your life is the same wherever you go.

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

My instinct is to be very controlling.

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

Love is family, support, priority, and understanding.

I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.

With much prayer, more grace abounds for every good work.

I just bought a Chihuahua. It's the dog for lazy people. You don't have to walk it. Just hold it out the window and squeeze.

If we wait for conditions to go from good to perfect, we'll just be waiting, waiting, waiting.

I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.

Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.

My heart's desire is to be recognised in Nigeria.

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.