This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the middle of a war zone.

Did you really want to die?" "No one commits suicide because they want to die." "Then why do they do it?" "Because they want to stop the pain.

Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.

And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.

No one commits suicide because they want to die.

Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.

Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.

Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating?

I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one.

... there’s also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?” - Paul Hudson

In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.

The moment you resist change, you resist existing past your current state of awareness.

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.

He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady.

When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

We were never meant to be baby, we just happened

Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.