You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose. To learn how to write prose takes a lot of years of practice.

What ever your doing right now, whatever your thinking, or worrying about. stop. take a huge breathe in, and just enjoy being alive.

I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially in America.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

I really want to come back! I definitely want to come back. Some of my fondest memories are in New Zealand.

I love the band Haim. I would love to do something with them.

I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by that point I kinda know what I want them to sound like.

The sound is very much always in my head, I have to get the sound out of my head onto the recording.

I think particularly in music, popularity os a very fickle thing. You're only as good as your last song.

We struggle in life because our inner monologue prays....my will be done.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.

Cynicism often draws correct conclusions, but nobody could live by its lights.

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.

Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.

Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.

If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week