I try to get enough sleep and exercise, try not to make mountains out of molehills, and vent a lot. I have a good team to support my work. I also do lots of mundane things, which will center me.

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.

Relax and Recreat yourself.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.

Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.

There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.

There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.

I'm going to write what I feel like writing, which is a great place to be. But it can be hard to get there. It's so easy to get stricken with one kind of self-consciousness or another.

You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.

The British people are the boss.