I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

What ever your doing right now, whatever your thinking, or worrying about. stop. take a huge breathe in, and just enjoy being alive.

I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially in America.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.

I really want to come back! I definitely want to come back. Some of my fondest memories are in New Zealand.

You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose. To learn how to write prose takes a lot of years of practice.

I love the band Haim. I would love to do something with them.

I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by that point I kinda know what I want them to sound like.

The sound is very much always in my head, I have to get the sound out of my head onto the recording.

I think particularly in music, popularity os a very fickle thing. You're only as good as your last song.

One needs confidence in the morning and courage at night.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

The only way to get to know people is to look beyond their physical appearances.

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you

A little reckless bravery may end up saving your life.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Whatever anybody wants to say about my sister, [Eva Braun] was always beautifully dressed with a great flair for fashion. [Adolf] Hitler was not this way.

You see, you don't get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

I've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, but I'm not particularly visual.