Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.

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.

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.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth, " the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on.

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort.

Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

As a buying group, visionaries are easy to sell but very hard to please. This is because they are buying a dream - which, to some degree, will alwasy be a dream.

How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.

With your spirit open and unconstricted, look at things from a high point of view.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.