
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

I'm a great mummy. I've mapped out all the fun spots in every city.

I'm not online. I'm not on Facebook much. I don't connect that way.

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.

I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.

Your love is better than chocolate. Better than anything else that I've tried.

Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories.

You're in the arms of the Angels; may you find some comfort here.

I'm a closet Backstreet Boys fan. They're very sweet

I play piano every day.

Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

Surfing is my passion because I love being active on the water.

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

Everybody loves you when you're easy, so don't disappoint them.

If I had to pick one song for me that sort of quintessentially summed me up, it would be 'Angel.' Without fail, I absolutely love singing it.

Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.

Nothing outside of my child is important.

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't.

And it's hard at the end of the day

A big part of my love and passion for making music is playing it live.

Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight

I will rememeber you. Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by and don't forget all your memories.

Your love is just the antidote when nothing else can cure me.

We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars.

I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing.

All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath.

You made my world stand still, and in that stillness, there was a freedom I never felt before.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and I want to give 100 percent to everything.

My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

There are women in every genre having a lot of success. Why not celebrate that?

'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.

I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.

I think ... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.

Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can't say, and you just walk away. And I forgot to tell you I love you.

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved.

I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.

Cast me gently into the morning for the night has been unkind.

You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.

There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences.

I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.

I have the ability, no matter what's going on in my life, to find something - my cup is always half full.

It was overwhelmingly beautiful to see my music performed.

When I sing, it's just ... comfort is a stupid word, but it is.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to lose. Clinging to a past that doesn't let me chose.

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.