“I’m quite arty. I didn’t know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.”

“You want to make sure that someone is there for you when you really need them, and not just there for you for the good times.

Success is the best revenge for anything.

Negativity isn’t the way to go. Smile more, eat some chocolate.

I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

Whenever you have an ex, and they’re like, ‘I hope we can still be friends!’ and you weren’t friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?

Be nice to everyone, always smile, and appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

There’s no need to suffer in silence – share how you’re feeling, ask how someone is doing and listen for the answer, be willing to ask for help when you need it, and know that we are all in this together.

Do what you love, work as hard as you can, and make people happy.

I’ve fallen for your eyes, but they don’t know me yet.

Love flows deeper than the river every moment that I spend with you.

I want to have a career that evolves as I go on.

Be original; don’t be scared of being bold!

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

Love can change the world in a moment.

If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

When I’m picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There’s nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn’t believable coming from them.

Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.

If you come from art, you’ll always be art.