I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better.

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

Kaputt was just a record that did really well for us, and therefore our record label and our booking agent said that we should go out and take our message to the world.

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.

I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

To sell well is to convince someone else to part with resources—not to deprive that person, but to leave him better off in the end.

Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous.

Build shelter against a rainy day.

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

Tories must end tribalism and divisions.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.