When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.

Love taught me to cry So come on courage! Teach me to be shy.

For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

My eyes were closed, they're open now

Stones taught me to fly Love taught me to lie And life taught me to die So it's not hard to fall When you float like a cannonball.

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].

Cold, cold water, surrounds me now, and all I've got is your hand.

If people don't wish to be eaten then they shouldn't taste so nice

Democrats are calling Christine O'Donnell 'the Sarah Palin of the East.' Really? She's a loud, emotionally unstable woman from Delaware. That's not Sarah Palin, that's Joe Biden.

Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m going to lose.

TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.

One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.

Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness.

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.