Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

Gradually you became my worst memories with a beautiful past

We'd incorporated Asia into our bones - its colours and laughter, its smells, its rhythms, its tolerance and patience, its compassion, its lack of ageism.

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.

... and what happened next?

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned.

Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway

I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.