In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective.

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.

TV always wants more people to be watching.

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.

And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome.

I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.

In Argentina at various tournaments, it's great. Every day it's full, everybody's crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis.

The devil wants to convince you that dying is the worst thing. It is very much easier to do what god made you for than not.

When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!

The Godfather has, maybe, one good scene.

I believe everyone here has a right to speak out on politics as effectively as possible.