People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.

I think everyone's so scared of other people judging them.

There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing.

I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen again - it's a bit weird when you think about it.

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

I don't know anything except being female, so I don't know the opposite of it.

The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.

I think even though things are changing a bit, we still kind of tend to grow up with girls being like, 'Don't be too loud, don't be too rude, don't be too naughty,' or whatever, to act a certain way.

I don't like to overcook songs.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.

I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

No true fan wants to go to Comic-Con and get assaulted with a marketing blitz about just any old show.

Would you pick me? I am so much my own agent, it would be - its inconceivable.

With the Eucharist, therefore, heaven comes down to earth, the tomorrow of God descends into the present and it is as if time remains embraced by divine eternity.