All songs are about shagging, you can't deny it

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

At the heart of anything good there should be a kernel of something undefinable, and if you can define it, or claim to be able to define it, then, in a sense, you’ve missed the point.

All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people

If the audience are leaving in ambulances, you know you've done a good job

I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.

If you've got a CD that's not working, just wipe it on your trousers, and if you're not wearing any trousers, put some on

Teenage dreams so hard to beat

I just want to hear something I haven't heard before

Words are the bricks of our world and they have the power to change it.

If you're being bombarded with information, the act of looking for patterns – not necessarily finding them – is what going to give you psychic refuge, a sense of sanctuary.

When you walk around with a long face in the house, that is called conflict.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.

I never really followed the traditional route when it comes to what people probably expect as a solo artist goes, but that's just me. It's my own creative output and it's my expression.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

There are tons of stories out there. I read a lot of scripts on a weekly basis. I'm looking for stories to tell and stories that I hope will be interesting to an audience.