Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

..."SORRY."...Just doesn't cut it anymore!

I had brutal beginnings. I will not let the darkness in.

I really believe that you have to earn things. I don't feel comfortable unless I have worked really hard.

Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse

Love is a battle, and I plan to go on fighting. To the end.

Over my real sorrows I never weep.

I'm not the kind of person you think I am, I'm not the anti-Christ, or the iron man.

I just don’t want to get hit, that’s all. I want to win without getting hit.