The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

Silence is so freaking loud

It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.

If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.

If you can control what you eat, you can control all other aspects in you life.

I think you always feel braver in another language.

There is something very healthy about finding support from others during difficult times. I needed it for my own healing.

I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see.

Nature is harmony in discord.

Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.

Growing up in a house with six brothers and sisters is a lot like being on a tour bus. There's not a whole lot of private space, so you figure out how to make it work.

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

One of those things that I find hard to dispose of is my attitude to album sequencing, the layout of the pieces.