I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.

Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.

My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

Nothing's better than a picnic.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

It's never too late for a coffee. After all it's morning somewhere in the world.

After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside.

If I were born a woman, my clothes would be for any man with rough hands to tear down and my body to be made love to by any heart lost enough to love

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

Forward, always forward, everywhere forward.

Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.

The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor!

The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.

Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.