If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.

If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.

In my new life, no room for a lost boy.

The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.'

You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them.

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

From in the shadow she calls. And in the shadow she finds a way, finds a way. And in the shadow she crawls, clutching her faded photograph. My image under her thumb. Yes with a message for my heart. She’s been everybody else’s girl maybe one day she’ll be her own.