It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ‘em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ‘em.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.

If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.

Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.

People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

I have noticed a trend in premature deaths in the people that I know and the presence of streetlights outside of their homes.

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its own world.

Coaching sets the pace to get the best out of others while giving the best of yourself.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.

There's no limit to God's love.

I know dead. I've been there, done that and got the freakin' T-shirt.

What London wants is a champion, a fighter for London. It doesn't want a patsy of George Osborne or David Cameron.