I think the US and the UK are gradually growing closer together in a lot of ways. They're inextricably linked.

Music is politics - it always has been and it always will be.

I'm already 30! It doesn't really feel like a landmark. When I started out, my aim was to keep making records. Just because I've reached the 10th doesn't mean I'm going to rest on my laurels now!

One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell your own truth.

Sometimes you definitely need to just let go. You need to sort of forget everything.

It would be a horrible business, a horrible sort of culture if you didn't have the candy pop as well as the real hard-hitting stuff. And I love some pop music.

I would always consider myself to be political with a small "p," although it makes me mad when people say politics should be kept out of music.

My generation in the UK, they're very apathetic, a lot of them.

If you're a Brit you kinda get used to people being cold and aloof and just generally arrogant - particularly musicians. (Compared to Londoners New Yorkers are a walk in the park!)

I want to be accessible to a certain type of person who wants to walk around with their eyes open, or at least is open to the idea of change.

Every man is defined by his deeds.

Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.

Night, when words fade and things come alive.

I have a goal to do my own animated film, something all my own.

Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Rock's always been the devil's music.

Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.

Peace is more than just a feeling. It's the mental and physical frequency where you'll find all your real power.

Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.