People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

There is an undeniable web connecting incidents such as the rise to power of dictators... poverty and the perception of human beings as disposable property.

There definitely needs to be water on the sidelines for these players, but I also had some Gatorade just in case they were allergic to the water or vice versa.

I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see.

Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.

My kids are always awake. It's they're taking shifts. 'Alright, I'll annoy 'em from midnight to . Who wants to ?'

When it comes to touch and feel as a musician, style is infinitely more important than chops.

To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?

Coe has smashed the world record, 1:44.92 seconds has never been run easier