Living in L.A., I was completely lost - and I enjoyed it.

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.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

Of course, things always seem more impressive when you're a little kid.

I'm simply reminding you that you're worth more than what you'll find at the bottom of a bottle.

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

You need to feel as good as you can before you start a workout. So what you wear to the gym is important.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.