All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.

A friend is a friend forever And a good one will never leave, never

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

I found God, he lives in an atom.

One good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into my lungs. I just always tried to stay up.

There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.

There is no failure in God's will, and no success outside of God's will.

You are perfect for a female." "Not where I come from." "Then they're using the wrong standard.

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.

If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.