I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.
I think the things that make me excited are only best when they're shared with people.
War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.
Every person I've met has influenced my songs.
My parents are still together. I have two sisters. I travel the world and they are the people I speak to.
I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article.
It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.
I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.
I have friends who were friends of mine before I did music and they are my friends now, and we share life experiences. It's no fun unless you're sharing with people, looking out for them as they are looking out for you.
And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the Army, so he could help me in that direction.
This will be my first visit [to Israel]. I've heard it's a special place, that Tel Aviv is exciting and that the atmosphere is excellent....I hope I'll have time to visit the holy places.
We see differences in people and seem to be afraid of people. The black or white or gay or straight - I don't necessarily look for differences but for similarities. We need to be looking out for each other.
Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.
Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride.
On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.
I used to have an eBay addiction. I was really good at selling stuff. My sister needed to get to a funeral in Ireland - the airlines were on strike - so I listed her on eBay: damsel in distress. Guys were outbidding guys to be the hero and help her. A guy who owned a helicopter won.
I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.
Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home'.
Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.
I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.
If you get up on stage and brag, I don't think that's very brave. It's braver to get up and take your clothes off. And I do that every night.
As a singer-songwriter who gets up on stage and sings about those things that make me vulnerable is an amazing experience. You get up on stage and effectively take your clothes off in front of thousands of people.
I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when 'Sesame Street' approached me to guest star, I thought: 'I'm going to be on this!' It's pretty incredible stuff.
My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was. The Army also contributed to sending me off to boarding school.
To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.
