At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

The monsters are in your own head

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.

Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?

Creative expansion cannot happen without vision.

The medication given during mental-ill health makes you rather weaker in body, in soul and in spirit.

All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.

He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.

I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.

My favourite food at the moment is Pasta, “with tons of shaved Parmesan on the side. Not crumbly but like the hunks, you know what I meanwhen you get the thin slices.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

I've come more to terms with the fact that I sound like myself. No matter what I do, I sound like myself.

Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.