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

When you work with new people, I think that it throws all of the matters into relief, because you have to explain yourself every time. It's like crossing a new border. They want to see your documents.

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense.

Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

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