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

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.

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.

My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth.

Love holds no expectation on what you will be, it simply values who you are.

Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things and himself of anything.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best!

Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

I’m afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is.

Love is an equation, a me and a you derives a we.