I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.

If you see me up there on the stand smiling, I'm lost!

Poor is the man whom is not content with what he has.

Do not be so attached to life otherwise you will end up struggling for life. Choice is yours.

In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.

It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

If you like music you like silence actually.

The best way to know any future is to cause one.

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

And if my heart isn't in my mouth it's because it knows its place.

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.