I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.

When I think about Flyleaf it makes me want to cry. Because it was such a special, unique family.

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.