Don't let anyone make you feel like you're not good enough, smart enough or cool enough. Do your own thing.

3 years ago I was stocking shelves at Target, living on Ramen noodles, and crashing at Billy's house. Now I'm on tour

I hope my allergies don't act up

Start enjoying the things you like about yourself, and if there are things you want to change, either get to work on it or get over it.

We want to give kids something to hope for. If one kid says, "Your cd helped get me through this year," that's all it takes.

Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.

There are some people i'd take a bullet for, and some people i'd like to put a bullet in.

Don't worry mom . I am still a virgin.

I got a little tattoo on my face, I'll never be able to work another real job so I consider that to be kinda forcing myself to stick to music.

I need a little criticism while I make a record so that I kind of feel like: okay, I know that I'm doing the best that I can do because someone is actually here challenging it.

The whole time you're bouncing ideas off each other, you continue to try and push the songs as far as you can take them and make them the best that they can be.

This story will never go down.

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it is to the New Testament.

Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm feeling - like it needs to be done.

The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.

We live in a world that pays attention to speed, volume, and flash. Subtlety has its own power in relation to that.

I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.

Becoming a mother has taught me to simply things and also to appreciate being at home more.

I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.