It was cool at the rock camp - girls could just be themselves and they could be silly, they could roll around on the floor playing guitar.

I think everyone's so scared of other people judging them.

There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing.

I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen again - it's a bit weird when you think about it.

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

I don't know anything except being female, so I don't know the opposite of it.

The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.

I think even though things are changing a bit, we still kind of tend to grow up with girls being like, 'Don't be too loud, don't be too rude, don't be too naughty,' or whatever, to act a certain way.

I don't like to overcook songs.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.

Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours.

It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody thinks you are wrong

Each time a girl approached the table, Mortimer would smile. Like this: And each time the girl would shriek and run away.

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.

When you don't go within, you go without.

If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters.

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.

whereas there are many people in the world who can give life to others, there are but few who can help others to possess it.