I SEE PEOPLE in TERMS of DIALOGUE and I BELIEVE that people are their talk.

When POLITICS is INTERESTING, PEOPLE GO VOTE.

Because of piracy there has been a MASSIVE downturn in PEOPLE BUYING music, which MAKES it more difficult for ARTISTS to make money from the sale of records.

I WANT a little black girl to pick up my book one day and SEE herself as the STAR. I want her to know that she's beautiful, and she matters, and she can have a crazy, magical ADVENTURE even if an ignorant part of the world tells her she can never be Hermione Granger.

The only reason I wanted 'Making TOAST' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of MOVING on. Every morning there's the BREAD and you make the toast and you start the DAY.

On the street, PEOPLE think I'm a guitar-carrying band member with a rock-n'-roll LIFESTYLE, but the CLOSEST I have EVER got to being one is probably lip-synching.

You've GOT to STOP DIVIDING yourselves. You got to ORGANIZE.

I'm WORRIED because of my mother, she's going to see my PERFORMANCE and she's quite hard. She's going to see me NAKED. And my Dad, woah. YEAH, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?

What GREATER BLISS than to look back on DAYS spent in usefulness, in doing good to those AROUND us.

Kids who are poor often have families that have not REALLY been kept INFORMED about... how IMPORTANT it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to USE POSITIVE incentives and words.