I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.

You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.

I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.

Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.

I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts.

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

I think people don't realize how many hours of practice goes into becoming a musician and getting better.

True religion is not just in the creed you profess, but its also in the life you lead.

The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.

You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.

When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive.

A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

If someone doesn't want me, I'm not going to hang around and win them over.

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape.

Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.