I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing.

A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye.

You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive.

Someone can only be vampiric if you allow it.

There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing and your intonation than the actual words.

I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "dear" and "darling" - like some kind of granny!

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that you can get used to it.

With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.

When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot of confidence and nourishment and encouragement.

Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.

Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light.

Our conduct is an advertisement for or against Jesus Christ. That’s why unity in the body of Christ is so important.

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

Food that walked and talked, that was us. McPeople.

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

It is just fun to play with [in "Mary and Jane"]. I think our sense of humor tends to go that way.

Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

Remember what peace there may be in silence.

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.