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.

I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

A conclusion is a place where you got tired of thinking.

Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

A grown child is a dangerous thing.

Steve Jobs was a pretty complicated character and somewhat a psychologically complicated guy.

You know what I like about disposable razors? They're disposable.

Witch hunters is white women’s worry.

The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.

God does not care If I am bad or good- He wants my love, Not my sainthood.

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.