I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble.

I would cut off my right arm to be someone's lover.

What's broken can always be fixed What's fixed will always be broken

You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully.

I would never kiss anyone/ Who doesn't burn me like the sun.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

I must admit that it seems like my mind really reconstructs some things, and in a very - I just know that it seems like some things are not as I remembered them when I do some investigation.

I don't have a girlfriend. No, I don't. I haven't had a relationship in years, actually. But yeah, I'm still looking. It's kind of nice to be looking for a home at the same time.

If you want it, work for it.

There is hope in the challenge.

IT'S NOT CARDS YOU ARE DEALT, BUT HOW YOU PLAY THE GAME!

When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits - not animals.

She breathes a soft sigh, and in the tried and true ways of time immemorial, she welcomes me home.

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

When I don't say a word and you know exactly what I mean.

You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else