I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.

Glory and gore go hand in hand.

Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.

I know when I'm onstage, I don't think about how it looks, I just concentrate on really feeling what I hear. But I totally know I look like Gollum when I perform, so it's cool.

Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.

Don't be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.