My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

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.

The meal is hot, but still delicious.Life is hard, but still beautiful.

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.

What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that.

I had enough time being single to know I have no regrets about being married!

Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, Id like to work with him again someday.

Often immitated, but never duplicated!

One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.

It's not tipping I believe in. It's overtipping.