Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

A road-wise folkie with a bluesy soul reminiscent of early Michelle Shocked, Melissa Crabtree is an original storyteller and performer not to be missed.

Love can't make you strong 'till love has made you weak.

Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.

When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

No no no no no. RIP Phillip Hughes.

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

A country where a man is afraid to criticise another one is no socialist country.

Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.

I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).

We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.