Will you be my shoulder when I'm gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.

The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

I am a dreamer but when I wake, you can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take

Mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.

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.