I do feel songwriting is a bit of its own creature and the writerliness of it...it's freeing. It's good for people who have an innate resistance to any restrictions whatsoever.

You're born and then you're on your own, you start having relationships, you're developing relationships to the world and your wider community, and then disappointing things happen.

I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way.

Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little.

I don't feel like I have a lot of reference to sexual innuendo on my songs.

I will not go back. I may stumble, but I will not fall.

I didn't truly understand the depth of my roots until I was old enough to wonder and care.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

I don't need handcuffs to enslave a woman.

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over.

Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood.

You don't want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That's what I'm missing right now.

There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.

What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.