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.

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!

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

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.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances

God’s word is the same, yesterday and today and a million years from now.

When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

One of the things I firmly believe about seemingly risky decisions is that you can't fully imagine how things can be better while you're in the thing you don't quite like.

The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly.

I love going to the G4 sci-fi-type parties.

And so with that spirit of confidence in our step and with that prayer in our heart, let us now quicken our pace to the victory that awaits us!

Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises.