I think I’ll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that’s fine. I have to make my peace with 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.

In the moment of decision, may you hear the voice of the Creator saying, ‘This is right road, travel on it.

If you’re lying to everyone you know, including yourself, at every possible turn, is a little upheaval really the worst that could happen to your life right now?

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

On the plane was a Time magazine and there was a 30 page article on diabetes, and I read every page. By the time that plane landed, I had diabetes.

What am I going to do with you? I have suggestions, but this might not be the place for them.

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.