I have never relied on anyone else for money since I graduated, and that made me feel grown up.

If you're doing something new there is always a sense of fear or foreboding, but you're in new ground and you have to get out your machete and cut a new path.

I feel like music is oceanic - there's no end to what you can discover.

The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop.

I write to find out about how the world sings.

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.

My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.

I think there are some things in music that work and don't work. That's learned from counterpoint and rhythm and theory, and they don't work if you don't want them to work.

Love and let flowers of peace bloom.

When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through.

I can't believe you're a professional golfer. I think you should be working at the snack bar.

Love has no place in a lawyer's office.

We stand for global security and so we take care of everyone's life.

I actually quite like [social media]. It's spontaneous, you don't really have to commit to it and I enjoy the interaction. Also, I have never sworn on there, not once.

Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.