I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document, you’re quite wrong. We remain as we always were, and that, alas, is one of life’s many nasty tricks.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.

In my life Why do I give valuable time To people who don't care if I live or die ?

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.