I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.

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.

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.

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.

Too much work will create too much motivation for the strong, and a big collapse for the weak! Strength gets great strength from the challenges!

Always strive to achieve and eve if you don't reach your goal in life, you will be amongst the stars.

The best way to deal with 'Change' is to lead it!

When you're playing a character who's cruel, look for the places where he's kind. When you're playing a character who is unhappy, look for the places where he has a glint of merriment.

There would be no accumulation of strength inside if the choices that you make did not require disipline and intention.

I almost stand in awe when I think of Joseph Smith. The angel appeared to him in 1823 - he said to this simple little boy, 'Your name should be known for good and evil throughout the entire world.'

I write really well on the road.

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation.

Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or you can leave. I chose to do the third thing which was sulk.