If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

I've always known I'm incredibly special. All my life. You know? It's not a big deal.

Well, as resources inevitably disappear [in Africa], people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more ingenious with a lot less, and accept that you can't get your perfect tuna sandwich on a street corner.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.

I was going through a break up. I was depressed... I really did need to do something. Recording an album was a great escape. I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started to work.