I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.

It's better to embrace your roots than it is to fight it, because then you're just fighting something that you're not going to win. We're like a band of gypsies, and it makes sense.

I don't like talking about music.

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'

I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive.

I've learnt to hide my tears on stage. They make people uncomfortable.

You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that's their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque.

It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.

I wish you all the best in life. Hell, I will even write your obituary for free.

She had on a blue bonnet, and with a pair of lovely eyes of the same colour, has contrived to make me feel devilish odd about the heart.

Someone engulfed by fury cannot think rationally.

I liked projects where I could take things apart and figure out exactly how they worked. The problem is, you can't do that with people.

You know it's a sad day when your child looks at you and asks 'Daddy, are these organic?'

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.

The world around you is some kind of distraction at best, and evil at worst, and you should be turning away from it.

We all have the same needs. So it's immoral to make snap judgments about people.