There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

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.

There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

Happiness is a good vibe for peace.

I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.

No matter how much tarnish you think is on the tabernacle of your heart, you still shine because of God's love.

The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

Sports must become an indispensable and inseparable part of our social life. Competitiveness is just a by-product.

I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.