Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

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.

When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.

The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery of life, all life.

No matter how talented you are, if you don't persist the probability of achieving your goals is extremely small".

The proper function of man is to live not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it.

My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.

There is also a reasonable tolerance: reason tolerates the reasonable. It is, however, almost tautological to call this 'tolerance' any longer, as it becomes a matter of course.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

Rage against the world, if you like, but quietly, or the Guardians will awake.

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