I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

Lucky to have been where I have been

Humans will always endure suffering - even accepting the fact that we're going to die will cause us suffering, and from that stems a little pessimism and negativity that all of us are susceptible to.

It takes some silence to make sound.