I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity.

I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.