My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.

It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

There are just some things that you can't deny.

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.

If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.

Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.

It is amazing how your life changes when you embrace the reality that you're better than the life you've settled for.

God connects us with those who inspire us and connect us to those whom we can inspire to greatness

A dog is a man's best friend........and a cat is a woman's..

Finally, ” Lilith said, smiling warmly at her. “A reasonable angel.”“I’m no angel, ” Eleanore quietly insisted.“Yes, you are, ” said every man in the room.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

There's no such thing as a bad day when you have a doorknob on the inside of the door.