This is a sick business. It's so sad.

Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist.

I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.

I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.

I don't want to be famous, or recognizable.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

I only wish to write.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time.

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.

Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.

Last Friday night; Yeah we danced on tabletops. And we took too many shots. Think we kissed, but I forgot?

I never asked for stimulus.

This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.