I just love music, so that's what I'm always working on, and I try to say yes a lot. Maybe I'm more ambitious than I thought I was.

Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.

It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.

After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.

When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."

I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away.

Real sign of intelligence isn't knoweldge, it's imagination

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

To me, comedies are usually the least funny movies. Movies that are actually a comedy are usually not all that funny. To me Goodfellas and Raging Bull are two of the funniest movies I ever saw.

My advice to anyone wanting to get into the music business, is always be ready to learn and remain humble.

I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

Luck is when skill meets opportunity.