Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

I just didn't realize, being a young person, that if you sign up to make a film, a certain portion of your soul is forever gone. From there on, you are that character to everybody you'll ever meet again.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be deceivers, saw too many sunrises not to be believers, broke too many strings to be pro's and gave too much love to be concerned where it goes.

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