I can't give up that quick My life is a candle and a wick You can put it out, but you can't break it down In the end we are waiting to be lit

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.

We ought to walk with God and not for God.

As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the standard trajectory.

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

The biggest turn off for a girl as far as I am aware apart from all logistic issues, is a guy without any mission in his life.

All of a sudden, You seemed to beStranger than a fiction, to me.

The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world.

Do it because you love it. Then it’s not a job. I’m a geek. I love technology. I would be online working with technology regardless of what my day job is.

The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.