“What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.”

“And I'm not saying it's a bad song, you know, or anything like that. All I'm saying is that if you get, I don't know, a broom, say, and dip it in some brake fluid, put the other end up my arse, stick me on a trampoline in a moving lift, and I would write a better song on the walls. That's all I'm saying.”

“I had to say to myself, 'Don't write the music. Let the music write itself.”

“I can say anything, but the things I want to say are trapped in that wide open space so I don’t say anything at all.”

“No, I do not like music. (But what she really was trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.)”

“Words are most important. I never wanted to write a song about nothing. After all, the impulse towards music is at its heart an urge to express something.”