It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.

The dream never stops But I see the end before I wake up.

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

I love Diane Keaton's style in 'Annie Hall,' but I like to think my own style is like a cross between 'Annie Hall' and Prince.

Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.

I highly recommend time to yourself.

I love vintage and I shop vintage a lot because it's just such great value for money.

When I write I find a quiet place.

Well, I like shopping.

It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.

True humility is a kind of self-annihilation

As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children.

I am just a plain, common man.

There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.