“I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.”

Music is like film to me.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

I can never be Michael Jackson or do what he did, but he is definitely a good inspiration: I want to give the kids that feeling.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

I owe to myself to show the world how versatile I can be.

I don’t wanna touch the sky no more, I just wanna feel the ground when I’m coming down.

I make good music for long journeys.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we?

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

I’m so used to being used. So I love when you call unexpected, Cause I hate when the moment is expected.

I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.

I’m the drug in your veins, just fight through the pain.

I ain’t scared of the fall. I’ve felt the ground before.

I ain’t scared of the fall. I’ve felt the ground before.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

It won’t be long before she falls out of love.

Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.

The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up.

What great changes have not been ambitious?

Without my mother’s ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.

Ambition is when you close the gap between your circumstances and expectations.

What we have, what we wish we had – ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost – these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

I remember the whole thing with the word ambition. I was messed up for a while because I associated it with certain people who just want to be famous. I think, for a while, it was kind of a dirty word for women.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.