I think the [music] industry really suffered from music being available online because it made young people feel, "why should you pay for music, if it's so readily available for free?"

Home is a sanctuary for me and the place where I can relax. Everyone should have the right to a safe and secure home.

I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different.

The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything...from me

I was emotionally scarred we could not get it away

Till then I wasn't alive, I longed for you like the love sick moon pulls the tide

We cannot act according to the promptings of our flesh

Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.

Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

'Endless Love' is such a perfect love song for a wedding or for a Valentine, because that is the committed kind of endless love. All the lyrics are perfect.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

Well, back to the drawing board.

I can’t think of a striker in the world who has scored so many important goals, never mind a midfielder.

Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it'll stop breaking it.