It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

For every person who has ever lived there has come at last a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand and they're very nice. At the same time I've met people whose music I've loved and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.

It's true there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it and where it was recorded what year it was done what they were listening to and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person if I live to be an old person. The water I miss and the air there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.