If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

The monsters are in your own head

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

Yet as a team, we can pull together to do some incredible work.

My journal is my life's companion.

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

Sometimes you may feel like you are just about to realize your goal only to fall short. That is no reason to quit. Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.