I usually know what kind of song I'm after. I know what I'm trying to do when I start. I don't always get there. But I try to visualize what it's actually going to be.

What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong.

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

I believe strongly in inspiration, inspiration literally meaning full of the spirit. I do believe that it comes to you.

In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that was hard for you, then that's sick.

I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

Who's my hero? That's a great question... Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he's someone I look up to every day.

Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.

While I was rapping I was always involved in youth work - I ran music workshops for teenagers and young offenders all the time and also ran a charity for refugee kids for a time.

If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see, and then....one day....I got in!

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity.

When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

The spirit of a youth That means to be of note, begins betimes.