I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

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.

Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.

Extend your commitment to your family members. Have respect for elders and be nice to them.they are your soft pillow

Roxy was my breath of fresh air. My soft place to land. She was home to me.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Find peace in where and what you are.

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

God blesses us more so that we can be more of a blessing to others.

Leadership isn't answering the questions others ask. Leadership is asking others to answer their own questions.