Whenever I start working on a song, I immediately try to forget everything, to empty my head. I try to approach it like,“This is the first time I've ….

The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I ha….

Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go..

I'm going to do things when they are right for me..

When you listen to the music, you see little movies in your head, and that's the beauty of it, I think. People can make up their own stories. They do….

I think that sometimes people fear continuity because it can turn into repetition - and there's a lot of artists who are really good at creating some….

When I collaborated with Nelly Furtado, the idea for the song structure came from myself, but the lyrics and the ideas behind the songs came from her..

...friendship is something you do..

Everybody's damaged by something..

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other ….

I don't like to criticize music and I had a really hard time picking out the song I hate for this because I end up seeing and working with musicians ….

What you see is so much less than what you get..

Remember, no matter how hard your life is right now, it would be worse if a song by Chicago was playing..

Whatever power I exert is collegial..

We live in a very gynophobic society.

The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a ….

It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul..

We were thinking about how other people deal with this career on every song. We got to meet people like Thom Yorke and hear him say how it's never no….

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men..

I take all of my music seriously and personally..

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time..