"I was a huge Usher fan and “Nice & Slow” was, for me, the slow jam. It captured everything I was into: the video by Hype Williams, with that fisheye lens and he was skirting across the wall with that beanie cap on. “And I very much modelled myself on him, when I started to make my own songs. He had the Usher chain with the big U on it. He was infamous. Him and Jermaine Dupri set the bar when it came to making those RnB slow jams, it's one of my favourites from that time."

"One of the reasons I did Crimes of Passion was because I saw The Music Lovers, Ken Russell’s film, with Richard Chamberlain. It was, and I still think it is, one of the most extraordinary films I have ever seen. Amazing. So when Ken came to talk to me about [Crimes], you know, I was thrilled. I got a wonderful note once from Isabella Rossellini and she told me that she did Blue Velvet because she saw Crimes of Passion. I thought that was a really nice compliment, because I think she’s quite wonderful. So that’s a movie."