I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.

Cheating is bad. That's a big mistake I've made, and I've really hurt people. I've never lied about it, though. I've always been honest.

In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff.

No matter what, I always have expensive designer shoes. It's all about the shoes for me.

I think one day I'd like to win an Oscar.

I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all.

I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album.

In real life I'm pretty easy going and pretty chill, I'm not the party girl who will go wild and crazy necessarily.

When I write for myself, I just get to be myself.

I have a reoccurring dream that I'm in the ocean in New Zealand and everything is completely upside down, because it's on the other side of the planet.

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

If obstacles are large, jump higher.

What the theologian shrinks from, the poet grasps intuitively.

Realise that your dreams of financial independence have already come true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of them.

And being alone is the best way to be When I'm by myself it's the best way to be When I'm all alone it's the best way to be When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye

There is a difference between knowing what is true and knowing why it is true

In real life a right-angled triangle is very unlikely to have a square on its hypotenuse.

We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone.

Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it, it delivers its gift and moves on.

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.