Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for me. It's my voice, it's my diary, it's the way I connect with people.

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.