I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

I don't even have a TV.

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

I can be a cruel person.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

I've got a crush on my backing singer.

I look after people.

I'm very loyal.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.

I'm not a natural born performer.

I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me.

I can express myself.

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

I want at least five kids. I want twins.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.

I'm happiest with my family around me.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.