When people ask me if I have a boyfriend, I tell them it’s my guitar because, really, it’s what I love and it’s what takes up all my time.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

I feel connected to whatever is out there.

I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least Id know that I tried.

I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.

I have a pirate fetish-I just always thought eye patches were sexy. If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.

Something about the way you looked at me made me think for a moment that maybe we were meant to be .

I put myself into character for my songs.

Thoreau was an idiot.

She’d have to treat the interview more like risotto than instant rice, adding ingredients gradually while stirring gently.

Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules.

I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

I don't love acting; I love chocolate.

The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons.

You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

You have to learn how to take an allowance.