For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

Wisdom is worth more than gold.

I have tried to be very rational, although I know love and hate are not rational and explained feelings.

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.

Simon Cowell and I are great friends and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth, Man's resurrection, and the future's bud Shroud in their births.

I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.