I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person.

I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.

There's a lot that I want to accomplish.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

I have changed as everyone changes: within a permanency.

Design is the conscious imposition of meaningful order.

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.