My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince - for the vocals, anyway.

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For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.

Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure.

When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind - contrary to a lot of my music.

I don't think I'd ever apologise for music I make, no.

I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.

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Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature.

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

I've put on makeup just for fun since I was a really little girl. Now I keep a look book for inspiration - with hair, makeup, beauty tips and products to try.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

I played Shah Rukh's nephew in 'English Babu Desi Mem,' which was my last assignment as a child actor. I was about eleven then. He's one of the best actors I have ever worked with. He really helped me with my lines and expressions. He's such an inspiration.