I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

I don't have an iPod.

I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.

I've gotten to a point where I don't want lyrics to mean anything.

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

I feel really different from other musicians.

Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.

I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong.

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

Nobody is ever going to be able to fill your you shaped hole for you...The gaping hole we all have inside that deeply craves validation love and comfort.

Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

Music will always be there. I own a piano. I have it in my apartment. I play it every day, and I have a lot of musician friends who I play with.

Food is a weapon - a very effective weapon. People don't cultivate, don't farm, you cut the road off, then you subjugate them very easily.

What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.

Even though there are plenty of fish in the sea you are without a doubt the perfect fit for me.

The best thing I can make is a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich.

If you can’t meditate in a boiler room, you can’t meditate.

Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in three - so I try to write country songs. But really, all good music is just soul music.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money... Jennifer Lawrence... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.

When people ask me how many people work here I say about a third of them.

The thing about a plant is, let's say it will have 50 or 100 little points of bright red. If you look at the thing as it goes down, it becomes green in a way... It is way more spectacular than pointillist paintings where these things are played with, but never to the level of what happens in nature.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.