To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.

When you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you have the illness, so people expect the same of you as from anyone else and when you are different they give you a hard time and they think you're being difficult or they think you're being a pain in the ass and they're horrible to you. You spend your life in Ireland trying to hide that you have a mental illness.

Generally I don't listen to sad songs if I'm sad. I listen to happy songs.

Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.

This is how you know religion is failing because people think you're bonkers if you believe in God and also because it's so uncool believing in Jesus and everything.

People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.

I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated.