I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!

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.

The time is always right for the right thing.

You can only accomplish the impossible when the God of the possible is involved".~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.

Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn.

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself.

I'm not a big heel person anyways, I'll wear them on the red carpet, but I've always been the one who loves loafers and brogues.

I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

Sure. Knock yourself out. No, really. Hammer to the head, works every time.” Claire

Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?