I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

Christians should be a foreign influence, a minority group in a pagan world.

Do we believe, or are we just playing Dressing Up?

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.

I love treason but hate a traitor.

When I hear the same formula being used over and over, I get bored. Just as huge pop artists have taken inspiration from things that are happening at the moment, I do the same with my music.

Come on, Rachel!" Jenks shrilled. "You're a badass, not a bad witch!

I got Robbie's mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: 'Hi, it's Robbie - whazzup!' Like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: 'I can't be f****** signing that'.

I remember my sister and I - my big sister would get up on her chair in the kitchen and sing Mary Wells' "What's Easy for Two Is So Hard for One." It was 1966, and I was 10 years old.