Love is like a promise. Once you break it.. it doesn't come back unless you really fight for it.

As a clown, you're letting go of all of your bullshit.

I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.

I think when people watch a lot of artists, they're expecting this showiness, and I'm cracking jokes with people. I'm heckling back. I'm interacting.

I went to England because somebody told me to, and I loved it. And, "blessed" is a silly word to use for some people, but that's how I feel. I feel blessed.

Words are very much my thing. I'm very picky and choosy with them. So, I kind of edit myself to the point of, almost stumping myself, sometimes.

I'm not a queen of anything, you know.

When I did the video for "Piledriver Waltz," I was thinking about rodeo clowns, and how they're risking their lives just to keep an entire arena laughing. They're in danger!

Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.

I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, “Not to unlearn what you have learned!”

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

I live below my means because it makes what I do seem less like a job and more like a passion.

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

Either we have the government forcing us and telling us what we have to do, where we have to do it and how much we have to pay for it or we put ourselves in charge - we as consumers, as patients.

My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.