My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.

If you're doing something new there is always a sense of fear or foreboding, but you're in new ground and you have to get out your machete and cut a new path.

I feel like music is oceanic - there's no end to what you can discover.

The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop.

I write to find out about how the world sings.

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.

I have never relied on anyone else for money since I graduated, and that made me feel grown up.

I think there are some things in music that work and don't work. That's learned from counterpoint and rhythm and theory, and they don't work if you don't want them to work.

In fact, you"-he pointed his fork at me-"look like a fairy tale.

Show some mercy to your 'time', don't always waste it.

The ultimate compliment a customer can make to an organization about one of its marketing people is: "I'm not sure whether your sales rep works for me or for you."

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

If somebody attacks me with words, I'm always like, Do you know me? Do you know me that well? Let's have a beer and talk about it.

The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.

I think the election of [Barack] Obama was a great step to prove to the world that we believe that all men were created equal. I think it will show that we have humility.

Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking.

Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don't want.

Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.