For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about ….

All ages serve and worship the same God, gather under the same gospel and add to the collective song that praises the faithfulness of God as each gen….

We get things wrong before we get things right..

I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?".

I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever I go there, I find myse….

Sing the song or keep it inside..

A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my ea….

Annette had kissed me. Who would’a thunk it?.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially..

I'd always wanted to write a song about a leather jacket and how wearing it makes you feel. I love leather jackets, and I've got a big collection of ….

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs..

The more seriously you take yourself, the less others will..

There is no beginning too small..

Three Songs 1 Mountain. I whip my quick horse and don't dismount and look back in wonder. The sky is three feet away. 2 Mountain. The sea collapses a….

The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love..

I'm a happily declared chocoholic. I keep it everywhere, even my nightstand..

The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth..

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’.

For things to change, we must change..

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live..

When I start to write a song, I have the words and I have the melody, and then it's just a matter of making it to the end. I think if I have somethin….