I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.

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.

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.

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.

After staring at the poor in the eyes, my thoughts on how best to help people have dramatically changed.

I got desire to be alive when i got believe in your embrace i will die.Believe had Broken and desire Lost

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don’t like looking at them so much. There’s a sort of pretty thing about me.

I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

Washington's a dangerous place.

People don't want gadgets, they want services.

It's OK that thoughts don't manifest into reality immediately.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary Clinton].

Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.