There ain't been no angels in heaven around since God invented girls.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

I’ve never had a writer’s block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you’re going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.