When all the stars were falling, they fell from above, and I thought of hate, and I thought of hate, and then I thought of love.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.

I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.

If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.

I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

I don't know that I'm the best fighter in the world, but I know I can beat anybody in the world. And that's all I need to know.

We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.

The world wishes to be deceived.

Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.

We are all Malaysians. This is the bond that unites us. Let us always remember that unity is our fundamental strength as a people and as a nation.