I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.

You can't roll a joint on an iPod, buy vinyl.

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.

Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so.

I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.

So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

I am very picky about my people and my beer.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

I like rules that are broken.

I like to make great albums.

I didn't go to college.

You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal. --Sherlock Holmes

The day you forget about the poors, you become the poorest of the poor!

Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.

He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.

Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.

You dont have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

I know you've been trying to get a hold of me, but I can barely get a hold of myself