I instinctively want to create pop songs and I think it's really good to challenge that, otherwise it becomes a habit.

That you've got to do anything that you feel is precious. I especially believe that about cultures and languages. You've got to be really conscious because time is running out.

I find it strange that there isn't more of a melting pot of language within the pop charts. I feel it becomes really two dimensional when everything's in English.

The fact that Cornish exists at all is just incredible as is the work that people are doing down there, it's such an important part of who people are.

Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in.

t.A.T.u. did a Russian version of 'All The Things She Said' and it was even better than the English version!

What playing solo has reminded me is how much I love electronic music and how much I love dance music. I'd like to move towards something more hypnotic and rhythmic rather than song-based.

My aim is to be able to be more spontaneous so I keep evolving my live set-up.

You need to push yourself, put yourself in uncomfortable situations rather than stick to your comfort zone.

Each language gives you something different so that's a good enough reason for you to learn it.

In a world where globalisation wants to turn everybody into the same thing, I think that anything that allows you to go to another place or be in another world has got to be celebrated.

I never said nothing...""I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is beliefthat sustains thought and holds the world together.

When we begin to know ourselves in an open and self-supportive way, we take the first step to encourage our children to know themselves

Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

People act as though the hybrid could solve all of our problems - which is certainly not the case.

All our businesses comprise of the BEST people money can buy. My policy is hire the best and pay them well

Adults in a free country should be able to smoke a joint if they want to.

Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes.

There's a sea secret in me / it's plain to see it is rising / but I must be flowing liquid diamonds / calling for my soul / at the corners of the world