I don't know anything about the history of music.

Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist.

I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.

I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.

I don't want to be famous, or recognizable.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

Focus means exercising the self-discipline required to keep your time, energy and attention directed towards the outcomes you have chosen whilst avoiding all distractions – good or bad.

Life should be great rather than long.

Your partner is your deepest mirror: do not expect them to change. Healing yourself, you heal your relationship.

When he said someone had 'died", Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died.

Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell

Our economy, I think, is still -- the fundamentals of our economy are strong.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.

We'd need a miracle," he says. "A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?