I was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I've been exposed to many things during these last few years; all the baby fat is gone.

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.

If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans

I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.

I want to get my music out there. I enjoy playing shows; I just don't enjoy airports. I want to be more creative, but it's hard to get into that zone on tour.

I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.

I dove into the craziness and did things that maybe I would think twice about when I get older.

In every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.

I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.

Unless you are actually a ninja, a guru, or a rock star, don't ever use any of those terms in your bio. Ever.

I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.

I will sing in San Francisco if I have to sing in the streets, for I know that the streets of San Francisco are free.

Country music has always sort of been country music.

I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.

It's a good thing I've got to live with you two or I'd be putting this on YouTube later. And mocking you