I think the best cure is to stop doing the thing that you think you should be doing and go and have a bit of fun in another medium, maybe other crazy things.

We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.

I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me.

I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

Music's free and music's for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

Don't say you won't strike now. "Not now" is what brings forth "never done". Strike it early, strike it now... But remember to strike it hard! Go and make the strike!

She didn't know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much closer to figuring it out.

Sometimes we are able to better understand a theory or concept through a story… such stories teach you, enlighten you, and entertain you at the same time.

You always want to unmask the person and find out who they are - that feeling of wanting what you can't have.

I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.

Using telephones, they would be so intrusive and would really disrupt the show.

And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this...this--' 'School?

I don't like when people dress intentionally ugly. Personally that's not my thing.

I'm inspired to inspire others.

Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you're never going to get anywhere.