I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.

You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.

I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.

Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.

I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts.

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.

A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.

When I talk about secularism, I'm talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Cooking is the ultimate giving!

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.

The love religion is all that is written here.

Gently to hear, kindly to judge.