That's the weird thing about music: It's never for anyone to own.

There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first.

If we ever meet in real life, we can have a conversation. But you should go and live your real life and I'll go and live mine.

If we all can figure out how to work together then we are the embodiment of salvation for our entire planet. We have the capabilities of it. That's the gist of it.

You can say something stupid with an incredible heartfelt sentiment and for some reason, it might be insanely powerful.

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then.

No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do.

Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.

I don't mind throwing something away. It should be your best or it should be what you want people to hear and something that's good for people.

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation.

But I know a lie when I hear one.

I'm big-busted... I can't always wear the cutest bras, and it makes me so mad.

I believe in the law of attraction...I believe you can speak things into existence. When you know where you're going and you know what you want, the universe has a way of stepping aside for you.

Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.

The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and tune out whatever you want.

Always attack, never defend.

I have very, very specific ideas about how I want to do my work and how I want to be perceived and to the point of ridiculousness sometimes.

Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.