I'm not going to pretend I'm someone I'm not. I'm not going to put on a pre-fab identity.

I always go through different phases of how I write and record. It takes me a long time to kind of conceptualize what feels right.

It's fun to look backwards and be like, "Oh, this song never really worked live before but now it will sound cool with this lineup."

I don't know anyone on my mom's or dad's side that was a musician.

Before I knew how to do anything, I was figuring out how to be in a band.

This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

The perfect state is one where men weep and rejoice over the same things.

There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and left him drenched, with empty arms.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

When I married Prince Rainier, I married the man and not what he represented or what he was. I fell in love with him without giving a thought to anything else.

Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?

If you're in control, you're not going fast enough.

I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.