Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?
You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single cost in 1960. On my phone, I can get an app for 99 cents that makes fart noises - the same price as the thing I create and speak to the world with. Some would say the fart app is more important. It's an awkward time. Creative brains are being sorely mistreated.
I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck. ' It's just mind-numbing to me.
Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.
I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.
It would be fun to go back and see where all my songs stopped, because I think I'd have every number in the top 100. It never ceases to amaze me. It still hurts when one doesn't work, because you put your heart and soul into it.
I'm going to have fans and I'm going to have people who don't like everything I do. All I can really do is go to work and do my job.
I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.
In the end it all comes down to enthusiasm. Your creativity is basically your expression of God-force.
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.