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I think I'll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that's fine. I have to make my peace with that.

I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

I can't give up that quick
My life is a candle and a wick
You can put it out, but you can't break it down
In the end we are waiting to be lit

When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young,

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

It's hard to accept yourself as someone you don't desire / As someone you don't want to be.

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

But if i sit here and weep
I'll be blown over by the slightest of breeze

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself ... throug h songwriting or other mediums ... I get a bit jittery.

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

Why fear death? Be scared of living.

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

Lover please do not fall to your knees it's not like I believe in everlasting love

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

I speak because I can to anyone I trust enough to listen.

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

I cannot love, I want to be alone
I will not love, I want to be alone

I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

I find it dull when my heart meets my mind

I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games.

It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

I like living in the city, but I like being able to get out of it as and when I like.

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

People want to spend time together and I just couldn't pretend that I wanted to do that. But now I do get it. [..] Though I still don't do that.

I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting

Take me somewhere I can grow
Give me something let me go
Tell me something I don't know

Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.

There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim
I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

A friend is a friend forever
And a good one will never leave, never

I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.