Ive probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

I really dont like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

'Upside Down' is a fantasy love story. It's about love at first sight - when you just fall in love instantly and will battle any obstacle to be with that girl.

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.

It’s always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, "This guy is very cool." I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.

Most of my friends are from the music scene.

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

When it is a question of money everybody is of the same religion.

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

Most people are cowards.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.

But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.

Although we lost it has been a great Test and one of the best I have ever played in. Hopefully the next one will be exactly the same.