I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.

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.

To embrace the spirit of godliness is to embrace everything godliness stands for.

I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.

The loveliest gifts sometimes come wrapped in the ugliest paper.

You don't have to explain something you haven't said.

Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.

There’s an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another’s degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.

One mans cult is another mans religion.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.