I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

There's a million new people in the studio every day creating new stuff so I really had to be on my toes with this one so I could get it out before somebody else could.

I believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.

My major influence was my ten years older sister.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

Bodies wear out to remind us they are temporary, and force us to spend more thought on our spirits

She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.

I have met a few Casanovas I like and a few I have not liked - and I hope to meet a few more.

I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.