Control, like curiosity, can be an exterminator.

Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century.

Film has changed the way we look at the past.

That's why writing is important to me. Time goes past, and you've been somewhere and come back that hasn't hurt you, and you've been somebody else.

I would say that I'm more than just a teeny-bopper artist... that my music can appeal to people of all ages.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

I lived in the States from 1996 till 2000. I attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1997. But I wasn't the most hard-working student. I rarely went to school. At that time, I seriously doubted that you could learn creativity in school. Music isn't something you can just learn from other people. Sometimes I regret missing classes.

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.