I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be ok

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

This feeling of being in proximity to something that’s lost to you, it seems like my whole life right now.

Higher learning undergoes emotional pressure.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.

Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat.

I never allow myself to be pressured.

A little integrity is better than any career.

Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.