I always get pissed that I can't make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent voice, like Leslie Gore.

Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.

I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.

I have personally been affected by women's reproductive health issues, and I will continue to support that cause and spread awareness about it.

I've always been interested in fashion, and Urban Outfitters presented me with a huge opportunity to pursue that interest.

It's important to stay creative.

I found all these stupid pictures of cats at the beach, and I was like, "They get it, man. They totally get it."

I'd love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I'd like to have an everything line!

I feel one step closer to Beyoncé now that we both have our own clothing lines.

It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"

My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's made up of a bunch of songs that don't really sound the same, but they all go really well together.

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

A handsome prince, such as yourself, deserves someone who is no less than one hundred percent dedicated to him.

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied.