I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself - there's huge amounts of nonsense.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.

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.