While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.

When you share feelings with someone, or secrets, it adds a layer of complexity to even the simplest things.

I have a problem... i choose to love them rather than myself... and that's why i am always the one who suffer...

I was immediately into all the great movie comedians - Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder. Everything those guys had anything to do with, from I don't know how young. Super young.

If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one atom in every cubic meter of space.

The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.

Dancing is like walking.People always walk,right? For me,I always have to dance

I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

As for two years from now... who know where it'll be. I think we'll ideally be doing a lot of the same stuff, but maybe with spell checking.