When I was 18, I'd be out four nights a week - I want to have that energy again but I've found I'm a bit old and ready for retirement.

Dubstep has been big in the UK for years. I'm fine with hearing a dubstep drop in any song.

Someone asked me the other day what my favourite record shop was, and I said YouTube.

I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.

I'm a big fan of Beyonce and Rihanna. I've listened to Beyonce all my life, and she's a big influence on me.

I'm excited about representing my gender, but at the same time it doesn't matter. I wouldn't say my gender has been a disadvantage.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.

I've always known my own mind, and I'm not shy about speaking it.

Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.

My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.

Life is too short to care about what other people says and thinks about you. So live life and give them something to talk about.

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

The overcoming power is God's; the overcoming privilege is ours!

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.

Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, 'The whole time.