Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

You are. Before you are whatever you are labeled.

The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.

Don't let anything morph you or push you around or have you be something you're not.

The first CD I had, that I think had had any redeeming qualities to it, I did when I was 25 with a relatively small label called Chiarascuro.

There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.

Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"?

I knew a girl so ugly, I took her to the top of the Empire State building and planes started to attack her.