Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.