I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.

Love is like a promise. Once you break it.. it doesn't come back unless you really fight for it.

As a clown, you're letting go of all of your bullshit.

I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

I think when people watch a lot of artists, they're expecting this showiness, and I'm cracking jokes with people. I'm heckling back. I'm interacting.

I went to England because somebody told me to, and I loved it. And, "blessed" is a silly word to use for some people, but that's how I feel. I feel blessed.

Words are very much my thing. I'm very picky and choosy with them. So, I kind of edit myself to the point of, almost stumping myself, sometimes.

I'm not a queen of anything, you know.

When I did the video for "Piledriver Waltz," I was thinking about rodeo clowns, and how they're risking their lives just to keep an entire arena laughing. They're in danger!

What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.

You can't NOT cross the street because you might get hit by a car.

When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so!

No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.

The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted.

Drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.