It's important for you to do what you love and not let anyone bring you down.

I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.

If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.

Everybody got their something.

My first love thinks that I'm too young. He doesn't even know. Wish that I could show him what I'm feeling.

It's my first love what I dreaming of when I go to bed, when I lay my head upon my pillow.

I come up short when I create music I don't like. The goal isn't to get into it to be famous; the goal is to perfect your craft and create your own sound.

Spread the word about good music. Don't just listen to what's on the radio. If you put in a little effort, you can find some truly wonderful stuff.

History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.

I'm trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know.

I was the last girl in Larchmont, NY to get married. My mother had a sign up: "Last Girl Before Freeway."

Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.

Every man must be like Stephen Hawking. His body is here on earth, but his mind walks in the universe!

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s

Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs clear.

Passion is the genesis of genius.