Im not interested in fad songs.

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.

Just because a suit fits, doesn't mean it looks good. You need a tailor. You want to get bespoke.

I have a theory that you can decide to make whatever day it is a good day.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

Honest always sells. Always has, always will.

I'm just a regular guy, but if you cross me it will get physical.

When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

Everything that kills me , makes me feel alive

I have to sing it every night, I can't get up on stage if it's some bullshit story.

One first celebrates a ‘silver jubilee’, then a ‘golden jubilee’, then a ‘diamond jubilee’, but even then he goes back again into a pile of wood (cremation).

The grip of her eyes is so hard that he can barely breathe. She entices him to crash into her and explore her depths. But he is already soaked in different waters.

Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.

I would like to see Russia not invade Ukraine or put pressure on and threaten Baltic states. But we live in the real and existing world.

I think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

Stop swimming around in your own mind. That is a dangerous neighborhood that you should not go into alone.

You always want to go to a party where you get an invite.

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.