My religion consists of laughing at myself. My motto is this: As long as there is a me, there is a reason to laugh out loud!

The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.

In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.

Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him.

For some people, “the point of no return” begins at the very moment their souls become aware of each others’ existence.

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman!

Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.

In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it!

Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.

Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.

I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life

I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.