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 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 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 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.

Take the initiative with deliberate steps to be a polite person:1.

I'd write over and over, 'I will not throw into coverage.'

never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

Think you have nine lives, do you? I saved you once.... don't make me save you again.

If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.

Energy never dies. It just transforms.

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Some people should never meet.