So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time.

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.

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

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.

When we create, we become stronger. When we create, we feel better. When we create, we can use our own two hands to create a new world. And this new world will be as we want it to be.

Music is the language of the heart

I'm sick and tired of having a forest and a torture chamber in my house... I want to have a nice quiet flat with ordinary doors and windows and a wife inside it, like anybody else!

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

She was wrapped in my jacket, almost swallowed by it. You never realize how small a woman is until she wears your clothes.

I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today.

I like action-adventure movies.

Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.