I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

I think in the same way you find a song that you feel represents the way you feel on the inside, that's for me what fashion is all about. It's sort of an external expression of an internal feeling.

I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.

I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me.

No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.

The beauty of the soul is wrapped in modest fashion.

Everyone was going crazy, like they’d just witnessed the birth of Jesus and the invention of electricity at the same time. Jude was a rock star, their savior, and they were paying him homage.

He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park.

What the mass media offer is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

I'm a big micro manager; I'm a stickler about organisation; everything needs a place, a purpose, and micro managing myself even when I'm in the studio.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water. It is an acting, living, moving force... it moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean.

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence