I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.

No matter whether you are black or white, man or woman, gay or straight, Christian, Muslim, or Jew, we all share the same emotions, the same human condition.

I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.

I write, "Give me reason but don't give me choice, because I'll make the same mistake again." I think that's what most men want to be told.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

Things take a long time, but when it's right things move fast.

Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.