My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them.

But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world, and there's incredible acts of kindness and bravery and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

We have to do much more than believe if we really want to change things.

We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate.

I don't think everything is going to get peachy ever. But I think we have to fight for what we believe in.

The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights - it's more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.

Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die