My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.

In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.

I'm really into good nutrition and keeping healthy! That said, I'm also addicted to candy - It's my biggest weakness.

I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.

Not only am I putting music out there, I'm giving part of myself away.

My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony.

Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.

Only the bold dare to try.

Spiritual growth and creativity are two sides of the same coin.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.

She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

I will take responsibility for all operations.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.