If somebody sings a song that I wrote, I feel like its a nice point of validation for the song, because it shows that the song is able to stand on its own. I like that.

I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.

Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days.

I like playing in other projects.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

I love having other people sing my songs.

If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport... it's fun!

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

Search, search.

The rush I got from crime was better than that of glue, drink or hash. I loved playing cat and mouse with the local coppers. He Who Dares Wins, the SAS motto, was very applicable to my life then.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

We are always in danger of rejecting the creational in name of the fall and of accepting the fallen in name of creation.

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.

What I would tell girls coming up is just be yourself and don't let people get in the way.

The rich feel full of merit.

So good to be alive when the eulogies are read.

I like the idea of baking. I'd like to be good at it. But I feel like I'm young and one day I can be.