When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

A road-wise folkie with a bluesy soul reminiscent of early Michelle Shocked, Melissa Crabtree is an original storyteller and performer not to be missed.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

Love can't make you strong 'till love has made you weak.

Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

Real science begins with curiosity and madness.

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Have you children, Mr Brandstetter?" He shook his head. "I was one once. Does it help?

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

One negative thought is the first step to failure.

There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.

Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued.

The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.

No one ever writes me and says, 'We have a happy hospital'. Nowhere is doing it in a healthy way. That's encouragement for me.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.