Also in Norah Jones, now there's a voice that sounds and I don't mean disrespect but sounds a hundred years old that sounds incredibly experienced. It's just an exciting time.

At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.

The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this.

When people say, Your music was the music of the Seventies, I say, So was discoteque. The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.

If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it.

I feel pretty confident in my own ability.

Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.

If I’d known a sixty-niner was the way to your heart I would have done it weeks ago.

You are the apple of Love’s eye.

It's a one-to-one dialogue. You open your mouth and you're talking to 6 million people.

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

A jade eates as much as a good horse.

That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.