Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim.

My heart's been broken in a thousand pieces I've lived and died a thousand times And in each of those lifetimes With all of those pieces I chose you…A million times.

Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one, and starts a war in the soul of another.

As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself.

I didn't want to sing. I wanted to be music.

I didn't want to sing.I wanted to be music.

The most beautiful things often stand alone.

I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me.

We write to go on living, after we have died.

If God could transcribe my heart, it'd still read "I love you".

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her.

Don't worry, " he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.

If you want to read about love and marriage you've got to buy two separate books.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia-I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.

My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.

I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

I felt like I was literally losing myself as being the joyful, spiritual, passionate, exciting woman that I naturally had been.