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

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.

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

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.

Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.

It is probably true that the economic benefits of being in the EU are a net positive to the UK, but a large number of people do not share in these benefits and the result is increasing inequality.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.

The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light.

I could just have chips and salsa for dinner every day.

Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.

suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.