Quotes

When I left school I went to college and then I remember doing three weeks labouring for someone and it was the worst three weeks of my life.

Boxing is a part of my life but it's only a small part.

It was hard to rebuild your personal life from the ground up.

I come from a very normal day job, a very normal upbringing, so I had six or seven years working in an office nine to five in human resources. I had the normal life and kind of thought maybe this is what I'm going to do for the rest of my life but still had that passion and that yearning for music.

I am so confident and empowered by my sexuality; it plays an enormous part in my life.

The amount of people that have said, 'You've inspired me to be confident. I've come out to my friends because of you,' that reduces me to tears every time, because I'm just, like, little old me from Hull has had an implication on somebody's life. That's massive to me. Massive.

Song writing has been a lifeline for me.

I was suppressed for many years. From the outside, you'd think I had a very normal life.

The creative process has been a little bit of an experience, really - to try and make that work for me. The only way I know how to do that is just to remain genuine, humble, and true to everything I know already in my life.

I'd gone through life being obsessed about my sexuality. People would ask about relationships, girlfriends, you start referring to people as 'they' so there's no judgment and you can be ambiguous. People around me knew, but I still struggled with talking about it openly.

Advertising is the life of trade.

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.

Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.

I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.

Retired life's good, man.

I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.

I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.

It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.

My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.

My grandpa was a big cowboy in his values and the way he lived his life. For our family, the ranch represented our family time when we got to drive down through all that desert farmland and Grandpa would wake us up at 5 A.M. to feed the horses if we wanted to earn the right to ride them later. I always had so much fun.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.