My first instrument was a little blue ukele.

Get outta my dreams Get into my car.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work

Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love.

It doesn’t cost much to be Happy if the currency of your heart is the blowing of the breeze and the swaying of the trees.

I would never have started this trip if I had known how tough it was, but I couldn't and wouldn't quit.

When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget that we are the church? And that we're here for the world?

Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.

The gap between what is popular and what is righteous is widening.

A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator.

If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.

Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.