The whole industry evolves around a great song

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.

If there is anything you need in life that you haven’t gotten, it is because you are yet to pay for it via the currency of time.

Spoil all the walls with sellotape marks.

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.

I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.

You don't have to just shop in the maternity section when you are pregnant - you can shop anywhere, just be shape and size savvy!

I think having wild, huge hair, is me being my own version of a lioness.

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.

I cannot live without children.

If I just gave you a piece of paper with the lyrics written down on it, it would mean something to you. It would tell you a story.