I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.

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.

He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.

I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.

Acting is an animal thing, not an intellectual thing.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board

Religon is misunderstood mythology

I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character.

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.

When it comes to making love, I may not be the best, but I'm damn gouda.