I think there are some things in music that work and don't work. That's learned from counterpoint and rhythm and theory, and they don't work if you don't want them to work.

If you're doing something new there is always a sense of fear or foreboding, but you're in new ground and you have to get out your machete and cut a new path.

I feel like music is oceanic - there's no end to what you can discover.

The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop.

I write to find out about how the world sings.

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.

I have never relied on anyone else for money since I graduated, and that made me feel grown up.

My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.

Hard work is never a punishment. If you see it so, you may not do it with the right attitude.

I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Freedom is a gift that can never adequately be repaid.

He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse s'accuse.)

My Dad is my hero.

In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

I have found that lived out, the hardest place to be a Christian is to be in a nice prosperous country with a lot of entertainment options because there's so many distractions.