Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.

I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.

Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.

I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts.

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.

I think people don't realize how many hours of practice goes into becoming a musician and getting better.

You know, you remind me of my younger brother. I miss that kid, so much that I sometimes regret killing him.

It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place.

Don’t forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over!

'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

Some people are born on third base.

The difference between success and failure is work.

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

I have the best fans. I know every artist says that but I really do. I love my fans for how much they know about me, how much they learn about me, and how much they really pay attention.

It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.