I don't think I'm a weirdo in a bad way. There's just a lot going on in my head.

I tried being anorexic for four hours and then i was like, i need some bagels.

I think it's important for people to know that it's okay to feel like you're not better as long as you keep trying.

I don't take crap from anyone, so that makes people think I'm rebellious. I'm not. I'm just not a pushover.

There's nothing else I would rather do, unless there was a profession that involved cuddling bunny rabbits and kittens all day for money.

I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

I like people's attitudes more than fashion or beauty or whatever it is.

There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

Your calling is in what you can do with human interference

Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.

We may be different races and religions but we are all part of the same human family

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.

The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them.

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

I'm always going to survive and always going to be able to make more music because I have a dedicated fan base.