I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.

I'm not afraid of anything.

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

The death of your beloved is the hardest time of all.

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.