There's nothing harder than making a mellow, clean record. It's really scary. I can see why people would never want to do it.

Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken instead to the angel on your shoulder.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

Trying to say something is all you got in life.

The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy.

Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.

All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?

Well, there are some who claim I'm more of one nation than another, but that's not true, Eddie. I'm of all nations, I play no favorites.

What excites me is the idea of doing a record that's pretty clean and focused on songs. I've rushed a lot with previous albums and there's not a rush now - it's not a race.

Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.

My grief sought out all parts of my body it hadn't yet inhabited, and I felt like I might collapse in on myself right there, at last, spectacularly

This is a business of love and labor.

Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.

As the body cannot be sustained without corporeal food, nor continue in natural life, so without this life-giving food the soul cannot persist in the spiritual life of grace.

I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

Never speak words that allow the enemy to think he's winning.

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

I liked college guys but they could tell I was just a skinny girl.