When I'm playing guitar, I just try and put those words into lyrics and just try a few things. It's all over the place.

I think if you truly believe that something should be that way then you should push for that.

Give me one good reason why I should never make a change, baby if you hold me then all of this will go away.

Truth is mighty and it will prevail.

I think one of the worst things people can do is try and fight the people they've agreed to work with.

I think the lesson that I learnt very early on was to listen to people you work with, because you're all in it together.

While I was travelling and I kind of had the classic realisation - that I guess most teenagers have at some point - that time's gonna run out and that's not in my power to change that.

I like to try and mix diction and experiences.

It's strange to think that I can go places and people want to hear my music. I guess that's all I ever wanted.

Obviously I still gig on my own, but I've always heard my music with a band.

The thing for me though, is that songs are good depending on the memories I have with them.

Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it.

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart

The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house!

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.

As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.

O thrice unhappy home Whose master doesn't know the difference between a watt and an ohm!

I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.