I'm not a very dark person.

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess.

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.

Belafonte sent his people to pick me up and I went back and shook his hand, then went back to my little flat. I was very happy to have met a president of the United States - little me!

They tell me that all men are equal in God's eyes, this player (Messi) makes you seriously think about those words.

I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition