I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts.

You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.

I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.

Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.

I think people don't realize how many hours of practice goes into becoming a musician and getting better.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but good shortstops are hard to find.

I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.

You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem.

There are some songs we do, like "Last Chance," I love it! But sometimes you just don't like your voice on certain things.

Too many voters are already bought -- not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.

Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.

Mowing your lawn is against nature.