The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

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.

It’s amazing how we can hurt others, especially those close to us . . .subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which wives belittle husbands and vice versa.

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

Share Love and happiness!! Beauty, money, Ego, Property, Materials will matter nothing

I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.

I love the idea of comedy in horror. I think this should be allowed.

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.

All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.