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

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.

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.

Every person I've met has influenced my songs.

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.

It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.