I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.

I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.

It's better to embrace your roots than it is to fight it, because then you're just fighting something that you're not going to win. We're like a band of gypsies, and it makes sense.

I don't like talking about music.

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'

I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive.

I've learnt to hide my tears on stage. They make people uncomfortable.

You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that's their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque.

It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.

Sometimes, before you make any plans or resolutions, before you declare your heroic intent to persevere, you just have to cry.

No one can command over the images of your mind but an Author can and if you won't believe on me then read my book.

Death is usually an all-or-nothing thing!

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.

Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

Control yourself. You'll spurt.

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

It is my nature to thin where others read.

We are the echo of the future.