May the angels protect you, and sadness forget you.

The worst thing about being famous? I think it's what everybody says.. the lack of privacy and the idea that you're not really allowed to make mistakes and everything that you do is viewed under a microscope.

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

The world is not so kind, people trap your mind.

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.

My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.