I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

I like the fact that there is challenge.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.

It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

A lot of time it is hard to break into the commercial world and that has only to do with money and that has nothing to do with being female or male.

To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.

In order to be different one must be irreplaceble.

I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.

There can be no compromise with war.

I will continue to make mistakes and hope to be forgiven so I have to treat people the same way I want to be treated.

Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.