Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.

People say to me 'You've changed.' and I say 'Haven't you?' People change, it's just life.

Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, itll need something to keep you entertained.

I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old.

Stuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing that's pretty/Is the thought of getting out.

I would love to have been born in the 60s.

I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.

Perhaps I’m not a nice person, but no one’s perfect.

I dont need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

Some thoughts are too angry to sleep. They lie awake all night and become obsessions.

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.

If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

In war, discipline can do more than fury.

Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.

Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.

I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.