I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

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.

If all the women over the world have been permitted to be married to only one man, except one woman. He'd love to marry that woman. That is the imprint of man

You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn

Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.

Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

One shouldn't be labelled a cynic just because one refuses to believe in fairy tales.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat.

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.