The sound is very much always in my head, I have to get the sound out of my head onto the recording.

What ever your doing right now, whatever your thinking, or worrying about. stop. take a huge breathe in, and just enjoy being alive.

I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially in America.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

I really want to come back! I definitely want to come back. Some of my fondest memories are in New Zealand.

You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose. To learn how to write prose takes a lot of years of practice.

I love the band Haim. I would love to do something with them.

I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by that point I kinda know what I want them to sound like.

I think particularly in music, popularity os a very fickle thing. You're only as good as your last song.

Only the ignorant think they alone are responsible for an outcome

Tell yourself the stories you need to tell. But don't be fooled by them. Never live your own lies.

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.

In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

I miss you already I don’t need to leave. I can stay. . . . Mmmm.

I thought we’d turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway.

Only the person who risks is truly free