I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.

To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.