I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet!

Whence but from heaven, could men unskilled in arts, In several ages born, in several parts, Weave such agreeing truths? Or how, or why, Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie?

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes

All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.

I caught a pebble in the moonlight.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.