A female vocal can lift a song.

I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see.

Ice cream is my comfort food.

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

I did my dissertation on Kafka.

I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality that isn't necessarily now.

If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.

My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.

I like how strong Sade is and how she doesn't give away too much.

I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.

Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.

Fear will hunt you down, right to the very depth of your soul".

My heart still speaks of our fire.

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?

Every life is precious.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.