I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it.

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

Love is blind, definitely. You never know someone truly or properly, that's what I've discovered.

I might take what I do very seriously, but at least I'm doing something, rather than sitting on my arse and being no-one.

I've sacrificed lots of aspects of my personal life to do what I do.

People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view.

Lyrically I address loads of things that I've never talked about before, about me or about other people.

I got to a crossroads in my life where basically I was asked to choose between staying at home and being with them, or being in a band and doing what I want to do.

Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way

Gratitude opens our eyes… We are often praying for something God has already given us.

We don't need magic to change the world.

When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.

It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.

I don't want to see anyone leaving single tonight. I want everyone to leave impregnated.

We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.