Again, I'm used to speaking to a lot of people; I have a lot of friends and family, and I perform music and speak in front of a lot of crowds. So I share with people already a lot in my life.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.

I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

When all the stars were falling, they fell from above, and I thought of hate, and I thought of hate, and then I thought of love.

You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.

If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

He had a sadness in his eyes that Carrie recognised as regret.

Before you go to live the life you are being forced by others to live, remember they'll never be there to share your challenges and emotions that come with it together with you!

Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world.

Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?

I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein: 'You're a threat'. And the 9/11 attacks accentuated that threat, as far as I'm concerned.

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.

It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.