I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

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.

Be disciplined and disciple to thrive in every situation and keep cleaved to your plans.

Feelings harden into beliefs when we allow emotions to become bearers of truth.

But then architects don't build their own houses.

It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.

Spend the rest of your life doing what God prepared you to do.

Why are people so interested in other people's relationships? It's like stealing.

God has proven himself as a faithful father. Now it falls to us to be trusting children.

I'm humble enough to wait and just chill. I'm having fun just working with these good people, man.

Don't be afraid of mistakes - There are none.

At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.