It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue

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.

I think people don't realize how many hours of practice goes into becoming a musician and getting better.

I’m not sure I trust myself around you I liked you from the start, J.D. I really wish things had been different, that's all.

A god of the ‘possible’ is no God.

It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

How long does getting thin take?

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.

Respect Dhoni's decision to quit. We should respect his incredible contribution to Indian cricket. Can't measure in words. Probably his quitting came one Test early.

Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.