The most important thing is that you're comfortable with who you're working with as a person. Forget the music, if you can sit in a room with someone and you don't have awkwardness.

I've learnt so much from the people I've worked with, about how to listen to stuff as it's coming together and not force anything.

I feel like I've got an open mind as far as sounds, for me, as far as I'm concerned I just wanted to make music that had really good melodies.

Whichever kind of music I was making it was all about the melody anyway. The kind of music I'm making now is the way it is because I'm being 100% honest with myself.

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.

Understand the game properly before you gear up to break the rules

In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

the more you stared up crap the more it's going to smell (/)

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.

Hang onto that goal and you do what you have to do to make it happen.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.

I don't really cook much. I'm more of a baker. My favorite things to bake that everybody loves, and I can only keep in the house for about ten minutes, are 7-Up cake and Pineapple Upside-Down cake.

It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.