When I’m writing, I’m constantly thinking about myself, because it’s the only experience I have to draw on. And I don’t see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that’s why the fans are there.

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

I don’t think I even knew how big we were at the time. It was mad. I gained a lot through East 17 and I’m grateful for being able to have that experience.

We are creating a unique experience. It’s starts with how you see the building from a distance.

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

An illness is like a journey into a far country it sifts all one’s experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn’t see the signs in myself. I couldn’t ask for help because I didn’t know I needed help.