Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

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.

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.

I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?

Moral’ means one is free to enjoy only the things that belong to him and those he receives naturally and spontaneously. That is the ultimate meaning of morality.

Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.

Never mind your happiness do your duty.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

The word sharing affirms that we have something extraordinarily valuable and desire to give it to others for their benefit and blessing.

Man or woman in the White House. How about that?

One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.

I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.