I've always had a tendency to push the envelope as far as it can go without hurting someone's feelings.

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 feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.

New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

Some things are good, some middling, more bad.

Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.

Reason speaks and feeling bites

...a mind, if given only the best food never craves any other.

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.