To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

To hear, one must be silent.

Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

The light is the left hand of darkness.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music

I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

I'm an emotional eater. When I get upset, my diet goes out the window.

I'd be the best mum ever. I would. I've got great training from my mum.