“Maybe the universe is talking and you should listen.”

You are the guardian of your own happiness. So guard it.

As soon as you realize you don’t need them you will be free.

And the day fell into night but you’re still my brightest light.

I rub my hands to start a fire placing it inside your heart.

And you get everything you wanted from me whilst I only get parts of you.

The one thing that sits true among everything else – Love.

Animals don’t care what you look like. They care how you love.

The gift is right next to the wound.

I was running adrift then you came an anchor to my soul to my ship.

Time is just one moment of timelessness.

A starless sky in your eyes, I’ve already died a thousand stars over again.

I can’t get enough of you baby, give me one more breath.

The moment you left, you took the beating right out of my heart with your last beat.

Everything in due time for its own reason. – How things happen.

Its taken me my life time to relearn what I knew as a child, to love myself.

At some point you’re gonna have to take a chance on something.

All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.

I’m tired of having to consult a group of old white guys about my black girl craft. They don’t even know what they’re listening for or to.

The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.

If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.

It ain’t that I’m too big to listen to the rumors, It’s just that I’m too damn big to pay attention to ’em.

Listen, I believe I should be winning Sport Personality of the Year because if it’s about sporting achievements and it’s about personality, then I’m a winner hands down.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, ’cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else’s songs.