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

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.

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.

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

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".

You can get the highest quality sleep by keeping your sleep cycles in tune with the rhythms of the universe (known as circadian rhythms).

My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.

Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up.

The American people have the right to know and understand the laws they live under. And they tend to demand answers sooner or later.

I find words really hard.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

I hear the howl of the wind that brings The long drear storm on its heavy wings.