"I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me."

"I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me."

"In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me."

"I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy."

"Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity."

"Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want."

"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself."