I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

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.

I believe in family values and following your dreams.

It's not the glitter, but the love, that makes things beautiful.

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

I know I'm not perfect.

Wake up. Get out of your mind. Be present.

Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?

Don't try to be someone else. Be yourself.

One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

I think that the way we begin our day is really the way we live our day and the way we live our lives; and that not enough of us are really aware of it.

Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.