I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.

In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.

I'm really into good nutrition and keeping healthy! That said, I'm also addicted to candy - It's my biggest weakness.

I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.

Not only am I putting music out there, I'm giving part of myself away.

My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony.

My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.

If in the laukik (worldly life), one attains the vision of alaukik (beyond the world), his work is accomplished.

He forced himself into good spirits.

You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.

We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing.

I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!

There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.