But I say to Apple with all due respect, we don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

The world's not getting any stranger.We are!

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

Alan Bennett and Judi Dench are amazingly talented people who don't let you down when you meet them.

A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.

When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles.

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

There exists no more difficult art than living.

It's good when someone says, "Would you write a song for this purpose," or "would you record a song for this purpose," or "would you help me realize this song," again, for this purpose.