“There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.”

I was expecting it to be cynical because I’m like that myself. I wouldn’t want it to be all roses because life isn’t like that.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

Cause there’s nothing, there’s nothing you can teach me That I can’t learn from Mr. Hathaway.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can’t control or change.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

No. No. I don’t listen to anyone except my … inner child anyway. If someone had said to me, Amy, lose a stone which they wouldn’t – I don’t think I would have listened anyway.

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black.

I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what’s given to you on a plate.

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

I’m not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I’m not saying, ‘I’m sooo not famous,’ I’m trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.

Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.

The point of life is not to get anywhere-it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there.

It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.

It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.

The whole point for me is to change as much as possible. If I’ve done one movie, I’ve done that, move on.

An affirmation opens the door. It’s a beginning point on the path to change.

From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.

In film as a medium, you’re often given a baddie and a goodie and told what to think about them; it’s usually a very definite point of view.