My head translates emotions into song. Songwriting is cathartic for me.

I have produced all my music videos. Love to get behind the camera and get involved in the editing process.

My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.

I try to get back for every holiday to see my parents. Love being home and with my family.

Everything is hard before it is easy

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it

Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.

There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.

Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.

I don't see myself as a pure fashion designer sending dress after dress down the runway but about wanting those watching my shows to aspire to a certain lifestyle.