I got a lot more interested in songs that could hold up completely on their own, with just a guitar and voice. For some people that's easy to do, but I find it's really difficult.

I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much.

I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs.

…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

I tried to blink back the tears that just kept coming. Eventually, I gave up and let my sight be obscured.

Hot crumpets with butter and jam - what could be more ambrosial?

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness, And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour.He that knows better how to tame a shrew, Now let him speak. 'Tis charity to show.

Am I falling in love? She thought, is it safe to do so with this man? She thought, I don't need to answer.

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

I think it doesn't matter what type of helmet you wear. If you don't know the hit is coming your body is not going to tense up and get ready for impact.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.