What's broken can always be fixed What's fixed will always be broken

I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble.

I would cut off my right arm to be someone's lover.

You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully.

I would never kiss anyone/ Who doesn't burn me like the sun.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

I must admit that it seems like my mind really reconstructs some things, and in a very - I just know that it seems like some things are not as I remembered them when I do some investigation.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

I don't have a girlfriend. No, I don't. I haven't had a relationship in years, actually. But yeah, I'm still looking. It's kind of nice to be looking for a home at the same time.

Three things happened in 1945. Daddy went missing, Annie started wetting the bed, and the Lester girl sang about Hitler in the middle of Sunday service.

We are all fit for better things than we ever do

I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.

You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.

I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

I think all good art is outsider art.

The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.

Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.

There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.