I often don't go to sleep and work through the night. I can't seem to do my vocal takes if there's light outside. There's a gentleness to the night that leads me in my stride.

All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.

I've been into gear for a long time, but I never saw myself as a producer because I didn't have the patience to finish things in a professional way.

I casually listen to mixes, but I don't know all the names of the tunes and the producers and stuff. It's hard to keep up with.

I walked when I should have runI ran when I should have walkedAnd don't I know it, don't I know it

a soul is far too large to hide.

Love is the power of being.

You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.

I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer.

I have added a lot. There's some Vegas stuff and hotel stuff and a whole chunk on health.

Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty, write about the mist. The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

At the end of the day, besides everything that I do, I'm still just a 20-year-old girl and a Texan, at that.