I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.

You can't roll a joint on an iPod, buy vinyl.

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.

Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so.

So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

I am very picky about my people and my beer.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

I like rules that are broken.

I like to make great albums.

I didn't go to college.

I have always wanted to see what the vibe was like and I was right It's on the Vermillion Bayou.

As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.

By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.

It's not like you can just stop loving someone overnight

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

I'm sure part of the fascination with the film is voyeuristic - that we go to see somebody who's been struck by lightning.

...like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

It's not like I cleaned up with girls. I always looked young and I was very small; I hated being 'cute.'

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.