Songs are more powerful than books.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

I wish you luck with a capital F.

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

I'm not going to get too sentimental, like those other sticker valentines, 'cause I don't know if you are loving some body. I only know it isn't mine.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.