Musician

I have admiration for beautiful women.

I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'

When you start to ascertain a physique, you run that thing where you don't want to lose it. It catches you; it's like a hook.

With every person you meet, there is a new and exciting experience to be had.

As much as money is important for security, for me, it is worth nothing without music.

Life is all about how things rough up against you and how you see them and the vantage point you have from them.

I'm a big fan of Usher, and I'd love for us to record together.

Something's wrong with all countries and all voting systems.

My thing is, for artists who are having success, being given an award shouldn't be the thing that defines you in the first place.

I don't know if, in a previous life, I was, like, the embodiment of a guitar, because any time someone plays a guitar with the licks, I just resonate to it.

That whole 'Bo' Selecta!' thing was damaging. I played along with it; I said it was cool, I can take a joke, roll with it, so I went on the show. But it was killing me.

I just keep it real, and I have written songs from my heart and performed them how they should be performed.

I see some artists who disown songs they love when they don't chart well. Would you do that to your children? Trust me, children ain't gonna do all the right things, so are you gonna disown them or embrace them and say, 'No, you're still my child. You didn't go out and do the right thing, but I'll still love you in the same way?'

It's lovely to feel part of a community.

We can all accept criticism of creative work, but to be publicly ridiculed for it is incredibly difficult to deal with.

It amazes me how quickly you can earn money.

You know a date's gone really well when she's happy with nothing fancier than a Big Mac and fries!

Don't take social media seriously. Don't buy into the hype.

'Born to Do It' took a kid out of a council estate and put my mum into a home of her own. It changed my whole family's situation, and all from doing something that I loved.

I leave it very open because, at the end of the day, it's one of those things where I shouldn't have to reinforce and state, 'No, I'm a heterosexual' - because that's all nonsense.