I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

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.

You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.

people will forget what you said, people will forget what you do, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.

We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.