You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.

I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.

Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.

I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts.

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.

I think people don't realize how many hours of practice goes into becoming a musician and getting better.

Aren’t there different electrical outlets here? And what about money? And isn’t it-” “Relax, Tess, ” Taylor told me. “I have everything covered.

It’s hard to see what’s good, what’s right, when you’re in the middle of it

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

Any time you have someone come up and say they love what you do and they get great joy from it is a very humbling experience.

Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

You have the power to let power go

The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.