It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

Different cultures have different audiences.

I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.

I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.

Those who win never quit.Those who quit never win.

The cheese stands aloneThe cheese stands aloneHeigh-ho the merry-oThe cheese stands alone

There are no supermoms. Eventually, you just have to hope your kid survives all your parental screw-ups.

I think it's important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you can find something funny, that's good.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

The average woman today is almost completely out of touch with her own power.

While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.

The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.

Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.

Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.