As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

The poetic side of me is Scottish.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] "What is it all about?"

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.