I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.

Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

Different cultures have different audiences.

I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.

I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.

You have to suffer in order to be beautiful.

We need to see better to be better.

Squeaking squirrels squandering away their square shares!

And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment.

Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing It Myself

If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady!

The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

There is no such thing as one Islam. The Koran is ambiguous and Islam is not a monolithic entity.