I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

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.

Even the ugliest swan is still more beautiful than the loveliest crown on the fence, Anna thought

Life can be so wonderful when simplicity, passion and love is involved in everything we do !

The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.

By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.

A person’s zip code shouldn’t decide their destiny.

I was awful at science at school, as a subject, because I didn't have the discipline. But, I was awful at music, as well, and I loved music.

The only time I had a normal boyfriend was during the time of AIDS, so maybe that saved me. It's certainly not karma.

At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I'm having a lovely time.

I never get to wear a suit in my life, much less a tuxedo. It's kind of really fun to get to dress up, because you take yourself a little more seriously if you dress nice in a starched shirt.

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.