I make sure to sleep eight hours, and I'm much better about eating, because I'm not standing in front of my pantry. I go to the market and pick up little carrot nubs.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.

I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

When all the stars were falling, they fell from above, and I thought of hate, and I thought of hate, and then I thought of love.

You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.

If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

I love Barbra Streisand. Anybody who knows me knows I just love her, love her, love her!

I had a chicken finger that was so big, it was a chicken hand.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.