Whichever kind of music I was making it was all about the melody anyway. The kind of music I'm making now is the way it is because I'm being 100% honest with myself.

I've learnt so much from the people I've worked with, about how to listen to stuff as it's coming together and not force anything.

I feel like I've got an open mind as far as sounds, for me, as far as I'm concerned I just wanted to make music that had really good melodies.

The most important thing is that you're comfortable with who you're working with as a person. Forget the music, if you can sit in a room with someone and you don't have awkwardness.

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.

You smell good, " he whispered into my neck. He was warm against me. Instinctively, I arched back into him and smiled. "Really?" "Mmm-hmm. Delicious. Like bacon.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

You were my dream and I was just your fantasy.

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.

I don't think I was ever...trying to kill myself but I knew that if I'd ever gone too far...I wouldn't care.

He is ugly and sad, but he is all love.

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys--maybe you just have to be angry all the time.

The foreign policy is not about changing mindsets. Foreign policy is about finding the common meeting points.

If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.