When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.

A friend is a friend forever And a good one will never leave, never

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

I have licked the fire and danced in the ashes of every bridge I ever burned. I fear no hell from you.

If ours souls are thirsty, we can draw freely, livng water from the well of salvation.

Imagine life as ... black can become white, and white can become black. But white can remain if you show love and respect.

Different people have different opinions, and it's okay to respect all of them.

The choices you make today design your future

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

My God! Middle Earth does exist!

Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.

Having a studio at home is like having a gym at home - sometimes you're just better off going out.