“A brother is like gold and a friend is like diamond. If gold cracks you can melt it and make it just like it was before. If a diamond cracks, it can never be like it was before.” 

“Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.” 

“Patience ensures victory.” 

“Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family.” 

“He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.” 

“A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.” 

“When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray” 

“The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.” 

“Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.” 

“Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it.” 

“Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.” 

We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that's harder than others.

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions. Smoke and mirrors.

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.

My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

I've never dieted in my life; I like food too much. I'm just thoughtful about what I eat, and I'm lucky that I love the taste of vegetables. I'm certainly not 'actress skinny,' and I never will be. I'm strong, and my body works great for me.

I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the sense of sadness and sort of loss that a lot of good old country music has.

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...

I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.

Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

I was 17 years old and in my first band, and we played at the university. I was kind of a gawky, unpopular teenager and there was about 400 people smiling and dancing to what we were doing.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath.

Surfing is my passion because I love being active on the water.

I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It's a unique perspective. You're this tiny speck in a huge environment, and it's nice to be reminded of that.

Oh darkness, I feel like letting go.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from. I was in a band called the October Game, and we opened up for a Vancouver band.

Hold on...Hold on to yourself. This is going to hurt like hell.

Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it.

I think... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.

I have the ability, no matter what's going on in my life, to find something - my cup is always half full.