I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.

I never felt like I was forced to do anything.

I've always been singing and making noise. I used to do that all the time when I was a kid. My mom would get very frustrated with me because I would just sit around and make noises.

I think it's very easy to get self-conscious and stuck when you're doing everything on your own.

I never learned to play properly either, I was a little bit too lazy for that, but as long I could express myself in a way that had sound, I was happy.

I've been collaborating a lot, because I like working that way. It's fun and keeps you moving forward.

You get a lot of fame, but haven't created anything musically.

I really do know what I want with my life. I think that keeps me from making bad decisions and spending time doing stuff I don't enjoy.

I took some time away from the music industry. I've been doing this since I was 16 and needed some time to get to know myself as a grown-up.

The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.

I have quite a broad taste in music.

...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.

The greater the obstacles, the greater the victory.

I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.

Whatever my team needs - that's what I do.

Do you really want to put a woman into the White House who supports the greatest assault on women of all? And that is murdering them in the womb before they have a chance to be born.

One of the problems with evangelicalism is that it has allowed itself to be married to the Republican party... Jesus is not a Republican. Nor is he a Democrat.