It's funny how you realize what's important, and it's not fame and money, even though it can be really nice. It's happiness and whatever it takes to make you feel happy.

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

Does he give you zings in your things?

Thank God for the journey.

For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care.

Timing is everything, as you know.

I'm fine, I am just going to go over here and puke shards of my own pelvis into this bush.

I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.

I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

If not reason, then the devil.

A lot of my colleagues at school became great friends of mine.