Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.

Are you tired? You should be! You've been running through my mind all day.

After a gig I get to the hotel all psyched-up from being on stage and get stuck into 'Homes and Interiors' magazine.

I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

I quite like being who I am.

I’m secretly hoping for the full five.

I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!

I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.

I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.

The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.

Our thoughts are with everyone that's been affected by Manchester attack. We want to stand strong, look at the sky and sing loud and proud.

Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.

His eyes, if anything, gleamed even more bright, having found the treasure he sought.

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

Santa Monica was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But its not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.

Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous.

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

I'm pretty sure no one's reading action scripts saying, 'This has got to be Ed Helms.'

As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.

[Wynton] Marsalis does not aspire to be an innovator, no one else is allowed to have new ideas either.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.