It’s hard to accept yourself as someone you don’t desire / As someone you don’t want to be.

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.

Obsessing over something that has jarred your world is called coping.

One day I shall leave the world, And if you feel like remembering me-Search me not in my ashes, In my words, you can rummage me!

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.

Every girl wants songs written about her. Even the most hardened tattoo-covered punk rock girl would love a nice ballad written for her.

It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.

Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable.

I look like a child - and I love it!

Dance is the only thing that lets you lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.

Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.