I think it's very easy to get self-conscious and stuck when you're doing everything on your own.

I never felt like I was forced to do anything.

I've always been singing and making noise. I used to do that all the time when I was a kid. My mom would get very frustrated with me because I would just sit around and make noises.

I never learned to play properly either, I was a little bit too lazy for that, but as long I could express myself in a way that had sound, I was happy.

I've been collaborating a lot, because I like working that way. It's fun and keeps you moving forward.

You get a lot of fame, but haven't created anything musically.

I really do know what I want with my life. I think that keeps me from making bad decisions and spending time doing stuff I don't enjoy.

I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.

I took some time away from the music industry. I've been doing this since I was 16 and needed some time to get to know myself as a grown-up.

The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.

I have quite a broad taste in music.

She curled those fingers around him and gave a long, lazy pull. "No underwear?""Didn't want to slow you down.

The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself.

There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it is good only for wallowing.

How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be

Once you're done changing, you're done.

You can't hear me? Read my lips!