I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

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.

Writing is the dancing of words, sometimes it is beautiful and meaningful, sometimes it is not.

No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk

It's like Sheriff Daniels sneezed, and they all caught the misinformation flu.

Each of us is born into our own mysteries but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.

A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will stop and hook.

Don't touch your brows. I've never done anything to my eyebrows.

Stay present. You'll always have time to worry later on if you want to.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.