Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things.

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.

You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.

Love's not only blind but deaf.

There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain.

What came first the chicken or the dickhead?

There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.

Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new.

I just wanted to do something that would freak people out. That's the best thing to do.

You can't worry what people think.

He made a sound close to a growl before speaking. “Why do you resist my assistance?”She stopped walking and faced him. “Because I don't like you.

I have no plans of getting married so soon

Never answer a critic, unless he's right.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.