My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.

Dubstep has been big in the UK for years. I'm fine with hearing a dubstep drop in any song.

Someone asked me the other day what my favourite record shop was, and I said YouTube.

I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.

I'm a big fan of Beyonce and Rihanna. I've listened to Beyonce all my life, and she's a big influence on me.

I'm excited about representing my gender, but at the same time it doesn't matter. I wouldn't say my gender has been a disadvantage.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.

I've always known my own mind, and I'm not shy about speaking it.

Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.

Whenever I'm making something, the challenge is always to create something that's interesting for me to listen to.

He loved dogs.She loved cats.That's the only possible reason they could figure out for their after-marriage fighting like Cats & Dogs.

One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

I decided to follow my dreams and my passions and to always have an adventure, no matter what it is.

The fundamental question facing Iraq government is whether or not we will stand with reformers across the region. It's really the task. And we're going to stand with this government.

The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.

Scott Buchanan . . . taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking.

Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives.

In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.