A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement.

A great song is the reason you want to jump out of your bed in the morning.

I'd be the outsider gal who undergoes a makeover in the end [in the 'The Breakfast Club' ].

I want them to have a desirable experience in whatever way that may manifest itself in each person.

I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade about an unrequited crush.

My main influences are pop and folk music - Bob Lind, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, the Motown collection, The Zombies, Elliott Smith, and a ton of 70's AM radio hits. I love powerpop too.

Romance is like maintaining a car. If you do a good job of it, you will always have a dependable quiet ride.

If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today

If you only go around once in life, then why has that one gone around more than once?

The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don't want-and what I want is to have fun.

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

Love is sharing your popcorn.

Ever step you take is forever.

Why don't we get drunk and screw?

You just have to enjoy life and that's what I like to do.

We have to learn everything we do.