With all my songs, I try to pull from personal experiences, like moving and changing locations.

I'm still talking about some heavy issues, but it feels a lot happier to me.

I didn't to be like, "I have to write a new album. I need to get creative."

I just moved [Bloomington] because I didn't do well with New York. It made me kind of anxious and it was just incredibly expensive. It just has this very small-town feel.

When you're on the road for six months of the year and you're paying New York prices and not even living in your apartment, it just didn't make any sense. So I had to get out of there.

I met my new partner [in Indiana] and she asked if I wanted to move out of New York. I said yeah, and we got a house that's way cheaper than renting a closet in New York.

For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. (on Margaret Thatcher)

I’m no dynamic career woman. I don’t network or do lunch – I work because I have to. My job does not define me, but I try to do it well.

Don’t care about day to day things, don’t care about the mundane, but care about what matters.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

"Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas."

I am who I am today because of my mother.

If I could read any person's mind, it would be my cat's.

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.