I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

Rilke has a very bizarre relationship to women because his mother had an older child, a girl who died when she was a baby. So when Rilke was born she named him Sophie and dressed him as a girl until he was 7. And psychologically, the repercussions of that made him the genius that he is. By the time he was 35, he was continuously falling in love with older women, mother figures, spiritual mothers.

I think I'll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that's fine. I have to make my peace with that.

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

I like living in the city, but I like being able to get out of it as and when I like.

It’s hard to accept yourself as someone you don’t desire / As someone you don’t want to be.

I don't have much to complain about in life, because I've lived a very privileged existence and continue to. I just think, What if I didn't have that confidence or strength of character, and I was left with certain perceptions of what a woman's place is in the world?