"Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I feel."

“I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.”

“I want us to be as good as we say we are and as others think we should be.”

“Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.”

Source : "Better than Amis?" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2003.

“The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.”

Source : Maureen Duffy (1969). “Wounds”

“Every day I am inspired by what's possible.”

Source : Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler (2013). “Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship”, p.75, John Wiley & Sons

“At one time I was praying for the salvation of sinners, and the Saviour appeared on the cross by me, and talked with me; I laid my hand on his mangled body, and looked up in his smiling face. Another time I was meditating upon the love of God in giving his only Son to die for sinners, and of the beautiful home he was preparing for those who love him, and I seemed to float away, and was set down in the Beautiful City. Oh, the glorious sight that met my view can never be expressed by mortal tongue”

Source : Maria Woodworth-Etter (1997). “Signs & Wonders”, p.10, Whitaker House

“No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.”

“A spa hotel? It's like a normal hotel, only in reception there's a picture of a pebble.”