The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

I won't say I've closed the door on acting.

What liberated our souls, we live to serve.

He thought: Because when you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is one of them?)

I could see the bay in the distance and where the ship should have been. Instead we found a burnt mast protruding from the waves.

I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy.

Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.

I love dressing up and putting on the makeup and the hair and the clothes and just being a different person for a day. Maybe it's just the idea that you can kind of hide behind it all in a way.

If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love.

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.

If we do not create inner peace, outer peace is not possible.