I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics.

I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.

I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy.

I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.

I hope that people don't need to look at the liner notes to be affected by the music.

When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.

No young lady can be jastified in flling in love before the gentleman's love is declared

I don't know anybody who is raising their hand saying, "Oh God, I love being vulnerable and needy."

I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.

Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

I think that's some of the stuff that we kind of joke on in the movie, this obsession; number one, winning is everything, number one, number one.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words.

Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms.

Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.