The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.

Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.

It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.

After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.

When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."

The hard part was when I went into the studio with co-producer Eric Broucek, and he started slashing my demos. I always sweat that.

You almost died.” “But you brought me back.” She cupped his face in her hands. “I always knew you were there. Death didn't have a chance against the Wall.

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.

The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.

In a country like America, there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.

I prefer watching movies on the sofa rather than sitting next to Bob Geldof at a premiere and wanting to kill yourself.

Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for me.

The business of the church is to tell and embody a story

The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.