When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing.

I only watch TV when I go to hotels.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

Life is good. Or at least, it's always interesting.

Who says soul has only one colour?

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.

If you remember one thing from talking to me, remember this: I am just a girl who makes noises - and I'm incredibly lucky that people happen to like those noises.

It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself.

It's ok to be sassy, but I'll never be trashy, it's ok to be nasty, but you got to keep it classy now

It would just be nice if everybody would be nice.

If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs.

It’s frightening because love is unpredictable, emotionally unstable, and uncontainable.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye.

For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.

He does not seek power - yet people follow him.

The United States of America is a threat to world peace.

Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

I'd be more than willing to give names and phone numbers of every makeup artist I worked with.