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" I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada. "

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" At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels. "

" The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too. "

" I am the biggest technophobe of all time. "

" My mum always used to buy a record every Friday. "

" People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste. "

" I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before. "

" I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. "

" I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano. "

" Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big. "

" The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon. "

" I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly. "

" I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow! "

" I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. "

" I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny. "

" Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me. "

" Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. "

" There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen. "

" I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love. "

" When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I'm doing a duet with Gaga or I was on 'All of the Lights,' which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio. "

" If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good. "

" An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make. "

" I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though. "

" I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later. "

" I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break. "

" I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever. "

" I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary. "

" I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next. "

" I'm a very wealthy man. "