“Survival first, then heartbreak.”
“Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak.”
“There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness.”
“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.”
“To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.”
“The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it”