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

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.

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.

Philosophy can make people sick.

Build your castle of dreams but don't live in it.

If you're always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in? Slow down and enjoy the moment you're in and live your life to the fullest.

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?"

Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.

I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.

While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred cosmetics boxes - even your face does not sleep with you.

Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.