I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.

Really, everything for me comes from "Manifestra." It was an incredible gift of a song; it really describes an important moment in my life.

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

The only really weird part for me was making sense of the person on the TV at the same time as the person who I am friendly with and do something so friend-intimate with as text.

So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.

I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.

the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.'

Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

I learned that buying expensive furniture with toddlers around is pointless.

I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.