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.

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.

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.

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

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.

He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Be lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves.

I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in real life.

Don't let anybody take your manhood.

An external thing that is knowable [is knowable] by means of something internal that is consubstantial [with the rational soul].

The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow?