I don't even call myself a Christian.

A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be

I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.

If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.

A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.

I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I was tubby and, like, not very cool.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

I'd love to write a country album with Adele.

Every band I've come across has read more than I have.

The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.

People are fast to revenge but slow to appreciate.

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

I love working in cinema - it can be in any language!

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.

Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.

My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.