I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.

Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist.

I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.

I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.

I don't want to be famous, or recognizable.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.

Discovering life in oneself is to become all you can be

The erotic drive is the great energy that moves through all evolution.What about love? Where does that fit in?Love's simply the handmaiden of the great energy, and an excuse to write suspect poetry.

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.

We have to start seeing people as human beings. Our entire humanity depends on that.

I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm EVER gonna love you. Now don't be sad, cause two out of three ain't bad.

I cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

Be the master of your will but the servant of your conscience.