This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was.

Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one, and starts a war in the soul of another.

I didn't want to sing.I wanted to be music.

The most beautiful things often stand alone.

I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me.

We write to go on living, after we have died.

If God could transcribe my heart, it'd still read "I love you".

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her.

There is still peace left in the world, and only those with beauty in their soul, care enough to be it.

My life is a room filled with love letters and goodbye notes.

I have these knives in my chest that can't become words.

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair - look at what's really there.