To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people.

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be ok

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.

Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

The zeal of atheists is the most admirable thing about them.

Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with which the human mind has not yet become familiar.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

Thought is the thought of thought.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

I love men who make me laugh.

My subject is war, and the pity of war.