I've sacrificed lots of aspects of my personal life to do what I do.

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

Love is blind, definitely. You never know someone truly or properly, that's what I've discovered.

I might take what I do very seriously, but at least I'm doing something, rather than sitting on my arse and being no-one.

People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view.

Lyrically I address loads of things that I've never talked about before, about me or about other people.

I got to a crossroads in my life where basically I was asked to choose between staying at home and being with them, or being in a band and doing what I want to do.

I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it.

Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly they don't have to sew buttons.

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

The Internet contains everything in the whole wide world ever. I don’t know about you, but I find everything in the whole wide world ever to be a bit distracting.

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.

I am a makeup junkie... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good.

Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.

That was the nice thing about the Spot: you could hear everything, but no one could see you.

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.