Singing is something I've always loved - I'm not sure what I would do without it!

The more you learn, I think the more you realise who you are and what you want and what you believe and what you want to be and where you want to end up.

You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.

I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.

Jealousy is not a nice feeling, I hate feeling jealous. But if you can admit it and laugh at yourself, then that's a good way of dealing with your feelings.

Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.

People don't know how to deal with stress and depression, so they're nasty to other people because it makes them feel better about themselves.

The more you relate to something or somebody speaks to you, it means more. I think that putting yourself out there like heart-on-sleeve, is really important.

People are scared. People are generally xenophobic - they're scared of what's different. If you're ignorant as well as scared, then you might end up hating something that you're scared of.

I think the media put more pressure on women, especially in regards to the way they look and how they're supposed to behave.

I can watch a sunset on my own.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.

Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.

Music helps to forgetThis forsaken tomb, That is my abodeCellars downFar belowUnder the ground, ...

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

I've always liked New York even before I lived in New York. It represents something, I think, and it would be trite to say what it represents really because it's been said so many times.

But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?