I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop, she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".

I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.

I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.

I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person.

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

The goal is not to be delivered of your problem only but to be an instrument of God

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.

Boxing is the most beautiful thing after women.

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.