[My music] is opposite to fashion..

I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped..

When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people..

Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be..

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem..

If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you….

The experience that I had in Paris I could never have ever again in my life. This is when I grew up as a young man. I was independent. There was no o….

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it..

I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians - they would ask us, "What's the shortest verse in the Bible?" and I was the one who alway….

People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong..

I felt like I was homeless anyway, so the change in environment wasn't that much of a big deal. I felt pretty much the same. After six months of livi….

I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards ….

When I started writing again, especially when I listened to French music and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I realized that these lots talked about the….

Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate….

Some people are saying that my music is not for Burberry, it's not for fashion. I know where they're trying to go but if you're saying my music is on….

I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasi….

The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending - and the reason you pretend ….

I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that h….