Quite Quotes

When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.

I’ve done so many interviews over the years in so many different languages. Radios. Papers. Magazines. There’s always another interview to do. It’s quite something, I have to say.

I’m not afraid of being dead, that’s to say there’s nothing to be afraid of. I won’t know I’m dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I’m alive in any way at all, that’ll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold peoples hands, people used to be shocked because they d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that’s quite romantic.

I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don’t process it.

The expectation of happiness can induce quite the opposite.

I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.