I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves.

I love Françoise Hardy. She's my dream, she's just amazing.

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.

You are a shelf of books without the pages.

As long as we're together, does it matter where we go?

I've kind of achieved everything I thought that I never would, so I haven't really got a bucket list. But I really wanna go to loads of different places.

When you're playing to an audience that isn't your own, it's quite scary.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

Animals will always have sad eyes because they can see into the soul of man.

You need to have the means to impose yourself

The leader must have both – the courage to take the people to a daring destination and the humility to selflessly serve others on the journey.

Culture is what we choose to repeat.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.

I hate to lose. I like winning.

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it.

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.