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.

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.

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.

I have saved by grace. My sins are forgiven. This is my greatest gratitude.

Creativity follows uncertainty

If you don't think the wheel should be reinvented then you are suffering from the lack of creative imagination.

I think having the right music can really help you have fun while staying in shape. Make a great playlist that motivates you!

I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention.

They say that true love hurts, well this could almost kill me young love murder, that is what this must be I would give it all to not be sleeping alone

Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.

It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!

Why would we go to war on women? They don't have any oil.