"The first time I saw her perform — she must’ve been 15, maybe 14 — she got up in a club in Dallas, sat in with her guitar teacher’s band, played "The Wind Cries Mary" and just blew everybody away. ... At that time she was very shy and diminutive, except when you listened to her guitar playing. ... She’s physically a very intense player. She takes a kind of ferocious approach to the technique of the guitar, a real high energy."

"Her stage name was inspired by the hospital where Dylan Thomas spent his last hours. “It’s the place where poetry comes to die,” she said, joking. “That’s me.""

"Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean. I'm keeping my eyes on the the exit sign. Steady now."

"Honey the party went away quickly, but thats the trouble with ticking and talking."

"I'm just the same but brand new And anything you wrote I checked for codes and clues."

"Honey can you reach the spots that need oiling and fixing. H E L P Help Me."

"I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron."

"If you want we could go somewhere else."

"Just like an amnesiac, trying to get my senses back. Oh where did they go."

"I traded my plot of land for a plane to anywhere Oh where did you go. And I can't see the future but I know it's watching me. All my old friends aren't so friendly And all my old haunts are now haunting me."

"The unkissed girls and boys of paradise Are lining up around the block Back pockets full of dynamite While their neighbors talk and talk."

"We're sleeping underneath the bed to scare The monsters out With our dear daddy's Smith and Wesson. We've got to teach them all a lesson."

"What would the neighbors think? Oh no! If they only knew."

"Tomorrow's some kind of Stranger I'm not supposed to see."

"Tomorrow's some kind of Strangerland where all the news is good."

"Honey what reveals you is what you hide away."

"Let's pour wine in coffee cups and drive around the neighborhood And shine the headlights on houses until all the news is good."

"I'm a wife in watercolors I can wash away what seventeen cold showers couldn't wash away."

"You're a supplement, You're a salve, You're a bandage, pull it off I can quit you, cut it out. You're a patient, iron lung."

"What do I share? What do I keep from all the strangers Who sleep where I sleep?"

"Good souls have born better sons, Better souls born worse ones. Paint the black hole blacker..."

"Lover, I don’t play to win but for the thrill until I’m spent. Paint the black hole blacker. Paint the black hole blacker"

"I think I love you I think I'm mad."

"Tell the truth now Your heart is a strange little orange to peel What's the deal?"

"Little lamb, what's your plan? Greener pastures in the sky? It's a shame you want to die know why Just to find you've been blinded to the greenest of pastures they're right here on Earth For what it's worth you're not the first to break my heart."

"Romeo, where'd you go? It's been years and still no sign, But I'm keeping hope alive.Juliet, how you been? You look like death like you sure could use some rest from this place human racing and the faces of people who pound at your door They always want more — they want more."

"The keys are in my pocket and they rattle you awake."

"I do a dance to make the rain come, Smile to keep the sky from falling down, down, down, down. Collect the love that I've been given Build a nest for us to sleep in here You know it's real."

"There are no signs, There are no stars aligned, No amulets no charms, To bring you back to my arms. There's just this human heart. That's built with this human fault. What was your question? Love is the answer."

"I read the signs, I got all my stars aligned, My amulets, my charms, I set all my false alarms, So I'll be someone Who won't be forgotten."

"Many people wanna make money, make love, make friends, make peace with death — But most mainly want to win the game they came to win they want to come out ahead. But you, you're a rock, with a heart like a socket I can plug into at will. And will you guess when I come around next. I hope your open sign is blinking still."

"As for me I would have to agree, I'm as fickle as a paper doll being kicked by the wind — when I touch down again I'll be in someone elses arms"

"Marry me, John, I'll be so good to you — You won't realize I'm gone, You won't realize I'm gone."

"It's time. You are light. I guess you are afraid of what everyone is made of — Time and Light."

"While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my grace, on rosy-red pallor of lights on center stage. While people have cheered on the awful mess we've made, through storms of red roses we've exited the stage"

"Your lips are red My face is red from reading your red lips"

"Come, my love, the stage is waiting, Be the one to save my saving grace."

"All your praying moments amount to just one breath. Please keep your victory But give me little death."

"While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my days in backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints. While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day, I'm inside a still life with the other absentee."

"While people will cheer on the spectacle we've made I'm sitting and sculpting menageries of saints."

"I'm not the pawn to your king I'm not your world on a string I'm not anyone you'll beat I'm not anything"

"Your skin's so fair its not fair"

"I'm a debut artist, I'm not established — nobody would write about it if they didn't like it. So I'm waiting for the next album for the backlash."

"Here's an awesome tour story: I was playing these two shows last fall in Europe, we played at Reykjavík, and the three or four days we were in Reykjavík happened to be the one and only Sugarcubes reunion show… So it was like, tour of a lifetime."

"I certainly owe a lot of awesomeness to blogs, to people who have been blogging about a show, or blogging about a single, or blogging about something. It's just amazing to me that it seems to be a nice equalizer. People don't necessarily need the clout of a big "record company machine" to put their face on a billboard. It seems more organic and honest in a lot of ways, for fans of music to be critics I suppose."

"In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible."

"Some songs I wrote that night, and some songs took nine months to arrange, get how I positioned them. Some songs I wrote parts of when I was twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen… Just putting it together, just finding the right place for it. So it's really been a long time coming. ... I'm actually really restless, in the sense that I'd rather be always making something new. I'm really excited about making a second record. I've got a lot of things up my sleeve, I guess."

"I enjoyed, and I tried to soak up and learn everything as fast as I could from doing any kind of music. It's good to have a gig. If you're a musician, it's good to be working. I love doing all of it, but Marry Me is my baby, St. Vincent is my child."

"I'm not your mother's favorite dog I'm not the carpet you walk on I'm not one small atomic bomb I'm not any any any anything at all."

"What me worry? I never do. Life is one charming ruse for us lucky few.Have I fooled you, dear? The time is coming near when I'll give you my hand and I'll say, "It's been grand, but... I'm out of here I'm out of here""