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

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'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.

The end toward which all human acts are directed is happiness.

A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

There is no greater call to service than that of our brave men and women who serve our country in combat across the globe.

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

Now if you go exactly where your competitors are, you're dead.