Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something amazing about sharing that experience with someone else.

Maybe I think you're cute and funny. Maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you, if you know what I mean.

I love you more than I could ever promise because you take me the way I am.

If you wait for someone else's hand, you will surely fall down.

When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.

I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.

Happy is the Heart that still feels Pain

Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.

It should be like a driver's license - no one can have an Instagram until they're 18. It's the wild, wild west, the internet.

For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.

I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.

Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied?

Life and calling are founded on relationships with other people.

All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the worst kind of pain, because nobody knew about it but you.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

I try to learn one new thing a week to balance the one thing I forget a week but lately I forget three things a week.

The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains

Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of a spirit rising to the sky is no more real than a medieval Scandinavian fairytales!