“If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.”

One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don’t stop and eat it along the way.

Forever isn’t long at all, as long as I’m with you.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it’s not all mixed up.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

Delicate is a song that was written about such a vulnerable time in my life

A great song will say how you feel better than you ever could.

Once you have an established song, you can really come out of your shell and experiment with the sound you want to make.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

Let my song carry me all the way home.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

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