Everybody, everybody wants to be loved

Maybe I think you're cute and funny. Maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you, if you know what I mean.

I love you more than I could ever promise because you take me the way I am.

If you wait for someone else's hand, you will surely fall down.

When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.

I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.

Happy is the Heart that still feels Pain

Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.

It should be like a driver's license - no one can have an Instagram until they're 18. It's the wild, wild west, the internet.

For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.

I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.

Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled

To be poor is to suffer. It's the kind of suffering that freezes the heart stone cold.

Once I caught my dad in front of the TV watching a tennis match, and I realized they were tricking us. Poor guy, he had to sneak in a tennis final - probably the French Open.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

Yielding, like ice about to melt.

I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

With success comes expectation, and I know the expectation on me is going to be pretty high.

Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.