Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.

Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

Different cultures have different audiences.

I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.

I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.

Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.

People think that I'm a nice guy.The truth is that I'm so nasty that I don't allow anyone else to hate me, except myself.

To Survive In A Ruined World, She Must Embrace The Darkness…

If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.

There’s plenty that poetry cannot do. But the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do.

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.

If I were the rain. . . that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never mingle. . . Would I be able to bind two hearts together?

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.