The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

I am the only real truth I know.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.

We have become a nation of biblical illiterates.

Patience was not my strong point.

What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.

Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person.