Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

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.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Our mistakes and regrets are not barriers to becoming who we can be

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

I think film was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have.

God won't allow anything happen in your life if it's not for your good.

I would rather try a shot to win than play safe and finish second.

Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.