[When I happen to] read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, [it comes off as] a little smug or something.

It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

It's not my fault that people are perverts.

Simply be and let your being be happy.

The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.

I'm not a fruity girl. I don't like licorice. I'm chocolate all the way.

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

There are only two conditions where you’re allowed to wake up a woman on a lie-in: it’s snowing or the death of a celebrity.

Just because you need a quart of milk doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a whole cow.

He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.