Ive learned from dieting and not dieting that literally the thing that works best for me is that if I think of it, I better go ahead and have it.

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.

History in the storyteller's hand was a potent force indeed, ....

Repentance brings restoration.

...by the end of my first week as an intern, I am just about ready to throw my pager out the window. A high window. Overlooking a trash compactor. Filled with highly corrosive acid.

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff

Zombies are then a symbol of our own mad urges to destroy ourselves, and a terrifying portent that we might succeed.

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble

On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.

He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

There's a whole chapter about my unfortunate manscaping accident. I was so focused on, "I've got to look this certain way and do this to be ready for this." So I missed out on a lot.