Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop, she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".

I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.

I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person.

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

Anger is easier than forgiveness.

I feel like communication is the same whether you're cooking for someone or singing or writing a song or writing a play or ordering from McDonald's.

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

I live for Tuesdays, and die by Wednesdays.

The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later.

If they found a way to make shooting in 240p expensive, it would be trendy.

After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

To get rid of swelling... I put green tea bags on my eyelids. Or I grab cold spoons that I leave in the freezer and put them on my eyes.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.