Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person.

I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.

Sometimes, in my world where parents hated one another and school was a battleground, it sucked to be me.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.

I'm just going to say that I met somebody last year, I fell in love, I had my first love, and it was something so incredible and indescribable.

I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.

Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

Great sport has intellectual beauty.

There are no bad regiments, there are only bad officers.