Singing your own songs live is so personal, it's like standing there reading out your diary pages. I still get really nervous so I would have to say performing is the greater rush for me.

I would say the main themes are love, loss and life. Although a lot of the songs represent hard times and situations I think my album is positive, the message is things will get better.

The biggest lesson is that you write the best songs when you're being real, an honest and you mean what you're saying, not trying to be something you're not.

The only sharks I’m afraid of are the ones that wear three-piece suits and write memos.

You know you are alone in marriage when your spouse is ignorant of your daily needs.

These cords that God makes, Reverend Bauxite thought, we stand holding one end while they run taut into the darkness.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

Italy's siren call lures us more and more.

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

A positive attitude toward life is always better.

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.