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Fame is like icin' on the cake.
[My music] is opposite to fashion.
You can't judge people by their cover.
My heroes: Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Nina Simone.
Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.
Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
Paris is very dear to me, and I'll never forget Paris.
I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.
It's amazing how people believe you if you use long words.
I've learned my lessons, but I'm also still learning them.
I always try to be as discreet as possible, so I wear black.
Personally, I wouldn't mind going on stage naked, totally naked.
People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong.
I realised that we're all equal - it's all about helping each other.
Where you're from shapes you, but you can actually do whatever you want.
Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.
It's my only freedom, music, and I'm not going to give it up to anyone else.
I started writing music in a French way: more focused on lyrics than melody.
The fact is, it wasn't enjoyable being in secondary school. I was a weird kid.
I dedicate all my time to music. And I'm glad that it's paying off in some ways.
Confidence came from people. I think I'm very confident in me, as a human being.
I never thought I'd say this, but to any child listening, the world is your oyster.
There are things that need to be said... and I think it's my obligation to say them.
Arizona - I've only spent a few days there, but it's inspired me the most. It's so peaceful.
I do music to tell people my thoughts and opinions about life, emotions, politics, everything.
We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.
When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.
I found it quite pleasing to be alone from a very young age. The piano became my source of release.
I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.
I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.
I adopted this feeling that the stage is my home, so just keep my coat on and not wear anything else.
I'm a very honest person, and I'm quite emotional for a man. If I want to say something, I'll say it.
We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.
In this life, I've learned to be patient. And I'm still learning... Even now, I wish things would go quicker.
I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.
Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.
Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be.
I don't have a flat anywhere. I'm registered in the U.K. for tax purposes, I suppose, and my mail goes to my parents.
My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what I would do.
I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.
There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.
I accept the fact that angels are great heavenly beings, and I think some people give me the feeling that I'm with an angel.
I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.
People want a beautiful story. Hopefully my life story is still beautiful, but that metro stuff doesn't make it much more pitiful.
The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.
I'm from London, and you hardly see stars because of the pollution of light. But in Arizona, there's nothing, so I can see the stars.
People say my world is dark. No, there's a lot of lightness in my world. But I know very well that I'm not normal when I'm performing.
Where I'm staying, near Lafayette Street, Bowery, and Houston, you get different people with different spirits, and that's what I like.
I was on the train; I did play, but I also played in bars, in the streets, at birthday parties for people who discovered me on the train.