Robert Wyatt

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.