The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.

There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.

I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.

Well if manners maketh man make-up maketh woman.And we don't need a phalanx of behavioural scientists to explain why man judge women by their looks.Because the see bether than thay think.

There is the potential for your beliefs to be infinite and limitless.

Love makes no sense at all. But it's the most powerful and amazing force in the entire universe.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

Success will be when every child in the world has access to a service like Childline and knows that someone who cares is just a phone call away

If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty, except for the memory of how they were answered by you.

The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.

So why did you want to kiss me?" "We're friends aren't we?" Callum shrugged. I relaxed into a smile. "Of course we are." "And if you can't kiss your friends who can you kiss?" Callum smiled.

What I try to push and promote is peace through the whole music industry.

Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.