My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.

Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.

In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.