I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.

Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist.

I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.

I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.

I don't want to be famous, or recognizable.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

To Him who has sense, a sign is enoughFor the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.

How have you arrived at your thinking? Where do your ideas and knowledge come from, and why do you credit some knowledge and discredit others?

Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.

If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.

I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University.

When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.

For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. Ive hired many people at very strange places.