I make a good fried chicken.

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

What you dream of, you will possess.

Public symbols matter. They are one of the ways we tell each other, and the world, what we honor.

You can never miss your fate, " Eleni would always say. "Even if it feels like it, it only means that your fate isn't what you thought.

Remember, the greatest failure is not to try.

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

Knowledge is never too dear.

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.