Music's free and music's for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.

We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.

I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me.

I think the best cure is to stop doing the thing that you think you should be doing and go and have a bit of fun in another medium, maybe other crazy things.

I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

Life is must be filled with endless hope.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.

I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.

It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go

Failure's hard. There's no way around. Bombing on stage never feels great. You feel judged, you feel alone. But then when your performance works, it's transcendent.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

It's unbelievable really. For something that started off as a hobby, I ended up getting paid for doing it.