Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist

Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

Yes!!! I booked a commercial!!!

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity

I dreamt the impossible dream and I’m living it right this moment.

It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.