I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy.

Sometimes, the indefinite article 'an' seems unnecessary to me. We can use 'a' instead of 'an'. It will not create a huge problem if we write or say 'a ant', not 'an ant'!

The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity.

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

Let brother help brother.

You don't want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That's what I'm missing right now.