I love making music so its important for me to keep doing that even if the schedule is busy.

The worst thing for a singer/songwriter is to run out of songs.

My idea of home is not necessarily a place.

With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.

I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.

I had a lovely time growing up.

I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do.

I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didnt know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music.

It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.

Ive been more single than not in my short life.

You were only meant to be a stepping stone on my journey across the sea.

Perhaps this is why one reads fiction to begin with - to live a more interesting reality than one's daily life.

I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.

I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don't process it.

Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm.

Dealing with these emotions as an actress is like being a boxer put into the ring.

What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?

I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.