That you've got to do anything that you feel is precious. I especially believe that about cultures and languages. You've got to be really conscious because time is running out.

I find it strange that there isn't more of a melting pot of language within the pop charts. I feel it becomes really two dimensional when everything's in English.

The fact that Cornish exists at all is just incredible as is the work that people are doing down there, it's such an important part of who people are.

Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in.

t.A.T.u. did a Russian version of 'All The Things She Said' and it was even better than the English version!

What playing solo has reminded me is how much I love electronic music and how much I love dance music. I'd like to move towards something more hypnotic and rhythmic rather than song-based.

My aim is to be able to be more spontaneous so I keep evolving my live set-up.

You need to push yourself, put yourself in uncomfortable situations rather than stick to your comfort zone.

Each language gives you something different so that's a good enough reason for you to learn it.

In a world where globalisation wants to turn everybody into the same thing, I think that anything that allows you to go to another place or be in another world has got to be celebrated.

I instinctively want to create pop songs and I think it's really good to challenge that, otherwise it becomes a habit.

Things never go wrong at the moment you expect them to. When you're completely relaxed, oblivious to any potential dangers, that's when bad things happen.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

Fashion is like music, and when you put music in a cage it doesn't work.

"Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.

I always expect there to be a new counter-culture coming up, something that would make punk look as ridiculous as punk made the hippies look.

What I do is put mirrors in the right place to reflect an image.

I'm a big believer in the negligee, that nearly invisible screen standing between you and the object of your desire.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

A God-intoxicated man. [Ger., Gott-trunkener Mensch.]