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.

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

A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.

The greatest force of humankind is the power of love.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking but that he won't let you stop listening.

A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...

We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

Bankruptcy is like losing your virginity. It doesn't hurt the next time.

Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.

Skiers make the best lovers because they don't sit in front of a television like couch potatoes. They take a risk and they wiggle their behinds. They also meet new people on the ski lift.

My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.