You are a shelf of books without the pages.

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.

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.

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

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.

There is no greater gift like LOVE.

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.

Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.

I asked [Donald Trump] if he had any advice for Charles Foster Kane and he said, "Yeah, get yourself a different woman."

The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.