All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

All my past heartache and pain suddenly made sense. That was who I would not be to the person who deserves the best of me.

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

It doesn't matter how fast or how far you're going. If you're putting on your shoes and going out for a run, you are a runner, you are in that club.

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.

Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can’t be like any other author’s really.

Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen.