I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs.

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.

It's never been my desire to conquer you, Amelia. If you leave this room with me, it must be at my side. As my wife, my lover, my partner ...” His thumb brushed her lip. “My dearest friend.

There was almost a flicker of humanity in the man. The kind of human who pulled wings off flies as a kid, but still human.

I would eat healthy at times and pig out at times. But I never had to go on a strict diet plan.

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

Our dreams make us large.

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.

If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it.

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.