Quotes About Healing

There are plenty of broken homes that don't have parents.

I made the decision to go on stage after my father died. And he would have wanted me to. But I won't try and plug huge grief up with the false world of show-business ever again.

One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some of my own. A poem I wrote for my mother when she was dying really helped me get through that hard time.

When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about.

I started writing after the death of my grandfather - memories, poems, etc. It was very personal; for years I did not share my writing with anyone.

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.

We've been at war with nature. Now we need to apologize and clean up.

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.

I think people tend to cling to music when times are hard.

There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.

I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

I think any woman who has lost a child and certainly lost more than one child, there's going to be a part of them that they keep closed off forever.

There are people that have closed themselves off so much because they've been hurt so much in their lives.

There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.

You want a storybook kind of closure with someone when they die, but I think that kind of thing is impossible.

I sort of don't believe in closure. In the sense that it doesn't make me feel better to think that something is over.

Music has the ability to comfort people.

People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't do without it in some sense.

When someone you love is in pain, you want to do anything to comfort them.

Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

For me, music is for the soul - no matter whether the song is composed by me or by someone else.

It's not always enjoyable to go back and look at things in your life. Things that you're not proud of, you definitely don't want to confront; dark times that you've already gotten over.

It's okay to cry, it's okay to be confused, or to be down and angry.