I always wonder what drives us as Artists.

I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.

There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite Scripture.

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

Acting is all about being truthful. I'm really bad at lying. I'm one of the worst liars I know.

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

I keep mementos from everything I've done.

Perfect love was that kind of love that made no sense but made everything else make sense somehow. It was raw and unscripted, turbulent and slightly unpredictable.

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

Thanks to Bart Simpson, I have a pretty good life.