I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

You can be afraid to voice your opinions but you just fight through it. It's like NIKE okay you just do it.

I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything for you.

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.

So I definitely think I've gotten much, much, much better at partying and having fun the older I've gotten.

I tend to have a very analytical mind, I'm constantly thinking about how things can be better or different.

When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different.

I spent my whole childhood in leotards, tutus, sports bras; I was showing my midriff from the age of three.

I feel more comfortable being confrontational and authoritative. It's important for women in this business.

I found music when I was very dark. I felt unheard, with inner dialogues that I didn't know how to express.

Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.

When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.

Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that's what you're feeling?

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.

When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.

Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.

So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

School is not a great place to have feminine features or a big nose, or to wear glasses or the wrong shoes.

I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.

My fans are the best in the world! They've grown up with me and stayed with me through this entire journey.

I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.

My dream was to not get a day job but to sleep, wake up and do my music. I want to keep that dream forever.

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.

I love having my hair and makeup done for red carpets, but to have that done every day would be exhausting.

Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

One song I do is 'The First Cut is the Deepest.' I try to remind people I wrote that song, not Rod Stewart.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.

Everyone is so attached to someone having a spat with another celebrity. It overshadows the good people do.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy.

When you throw your hands up in the air like you just don't care, you're doing 'The Fly' by Chubby Checker!

I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.

I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it.

What I've learned is that if you stay focused and believe and actually walk the walk, anything is possible.

You ask me if I love you and I choke on my reply. I'd rather hurt you honestly than mislead you with a lie.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

do u ever think, when ur all alone, all tht we could be, where this can go, am i crazy, or falling in love?

Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time.

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.

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