There comes a moment for all of us when our childhood ceases to be an excuse. In your case, I would say that, as with many English, the moment is somewhat delayed.

It's very rare that you can be in a career for as long as I have and still feel like you're constantly learning and coming at it from an almost childlike perspective.

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

I'm not drunk onstage, although I've done that a couple of times when I was younger. It's partly just the way I talk - I talk like somebody in a rocking chair. I'm your 150-year-old grandmother.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

Donald Trump has to be respected.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past