I think that music makers just really bless the planet.

The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime.

I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it's very much in the hyperions of height. You go exploring every night.

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.

All my life I'm trying to go forward and trying to grow.

Tim Price is truly blessed - he plays music because he loves it.

Belief has the power to change your inner state and your outer world.

...choosing words is harder than I thought.

Don't waste your breath/trying to escape/if a pure love you don't have/no one will be saved.

I don't want you to leaveWhich is exactly why I should. But don't worry. I'm essentially a selfish creature. I crave your company too much to do what I should.

I know people who've gone to jail. It don't mean you stop loving them! They deservin' love just as much in there, and maybe they needin' it more.

Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.