I definitely love music that's coming out now, there's some really exciting fresh artists coming through which is really cool. I guess it's from old and new, where my influences are based.

I think I was a mermaid and I used to swim the shores or Hawaii and used to pop up and see coconuts and pineapples everywhere.

Create a vision that makes you wanna jump out of bed in the morning.

Reggae music really chills me out in my dressing-room before I head on stage.

The simple questions are always the hardest ones.

When I do my vocal warm-ups everyone calls me the dolphin because I do stupid siren noises.

I always feel like when I've listened to a great song I know it, 'cuz it's the only time I'll ever get goosebumps or something like that.

I think we've all got a mirror man in our life - male, female, it's someone who love themselves before they can love anyone else.

By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just be my hobby but now it's like my diary, it's where I can go in my own little bubble.

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.

My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite 80's driven, so I was always surrounded by music growing up.

Absence makes the loins grow hotter.

When you succumb to cynicism, darkness, pessimism and sarcasm you are amplifying imbalance and negativity.

The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.

The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

In terms of jumping into a characters skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is whats required to achieve what I want to achieve.

Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!

It's very difficult to censor anything anymore.

Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to others.