“The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.”

“I'm beginning to grow into who I thought I might be.”

“Eliza's constant harping didn't even get to Martha, although it sometimes seemed that Eliza's raison d'etre was to urinate on Martha's parade.”

“There seemed to be an enormous space between them all the time at the moment and it was easier to bear if they weren't in the same room”

“If I'm in love with him, how come I can so perfectly inhabit the mindset of thinking he's a git and the bane of my life?”

“Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.”

“You can't ask questions like that. Everything has to be done in the right order, or the whole narrative falls to pieces. One thing has to follow another. You can't skip over anything or move things along faster. One step at a time.”