When you're playing to an audience that isn't your own, it's quite scary.

I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves.

I love Françoise Hardy. She's my dream, she's just amazing.

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.

You are a shelf of books without the pages.

As long as we're together, does it matter where we go?

I've kind of achieved everything I thought that I never would, so I haven't really got a bucket list. But I really wanna go to loads of different places.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

It's our faith that activates the power of God.

Just stay close to us. If we get in trouble, we'll kill everything.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.

When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

Only those with passion can become masters.