As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

Yes!!! I booked a commercial!!!

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot live in a coed dorm have a girl. But you couldn't have a . . . hot plate!

At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

Every relationship ends, until maybe you find one that lasts forever.

What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against - Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

With Submarine, when I came out of school, people were so lovely and supportive. And you don't get that experience very often. It felt like a family on-set. So Submarine changed so much for me.