I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

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.

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

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 love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

Love what matters in a world that loves itself.

I've always been very supported. I've never really been sad. I've just been broke. They are very different things.

Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.

Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.

One of the occupational hazards of being an actor, the reason why so many actors are insecure, is that the only way we know we're good is when other people tell us.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

I was pretty subdued [as a kid ] because I didn't want to get spanked, and I didn't want to go to Hell.

If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.