Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

Don't change for anyone. The people that matter don't care, and the people that care don't matter.

The first music you really fall in love with is more than just music. It's something that clicks in you beyond the song; it's a message or image that causes you to jump in and not let go.

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

It's really weird getting phone calls, and people going 'I love you, I love you, I love you.'

I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.

You have to know what you want and keep going for it.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.

A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age.

Your toaster’s a puff.

Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

I'll end discriminatory laws like the Hyde Amendment that make it all but impossible for low-income women - disproportionately, women of color - to exercise their rights.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist, whereas film was not.

I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.

It is easy to sit and it is easy not to think; you do the opposite: You walk and think!