A piece of me is gone, " she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.

He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.

The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.

I remember passion.

Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you.But no one does.

Sometimes you don't let us talk about how we're feeling. If we feel scared, you say, 'Nothing to worry about, guys, ' but that doesn't make it go away. It makes it grow.

You blame me for this, don't you?" he says."I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

I can see clearly my visions.

Just because you are available for a relationship, doesn't mean you are ready for one. Sometimes you need a break from external relationships to nourish the internal one.

Seductive pull of the forest, an open canvas for trouble.

A dog is a vehicle, you know, a dog is a window to Mother Nature and that's the closest species we have.

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.

I am here to tell you my father was right. You are a raging f..kwit. Now f..k off.

If you live in a world of faith, this reaffirms your faith.

As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.