“I didn’t have a lot to do with the first record.”

A lot of people say I’m an overnight success, but it’s an overnight success that’s been twelve years in the making.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.

I think it has a lot to do with determination. I treat people the way I want to be treated and believe if you work hard you can have the things you want in life.

I was blessed. I had a great childhood and great parents that loved music and family. I moved from England when I was almost 18 and been on my own ever since and have been trying to make a living in the music business for the past twelve years.

My lifes a wreck, and I love it.

My first character was Mr. Toad.

Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one’s own self-obsession.

And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part.

In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of ‘reason’ as single sources of authority.

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

Know who you are, because that’s how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.

It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.