I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.

I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

When all the stars were falling, they fell from above, and I thought of hate, and I thought of hate, and then I thought of love.

You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.

If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.

The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it ticks.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

I never want to leave you." I didn't respond- not because I couldn't find the words, but because there weren't any words in the entire world that could have sounded more perfect.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.

If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.

I love getting out there and traveling and doing shows and all of that. But when I can be home, it's a special time.

I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow it and weave it into my reviews and essays about the medium.

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.