If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.

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.

I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat.

She looked like a woman talking about astronomical parallax, and that made her brilliantly beautiful.

Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.

When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.

If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

True success is when you reach back and bring somebody along with you.

A writer is someone who writes!

The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.

Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.