If you're doing something new there is always a sense of fear or foreboding, but you're in new ground and you have to get out your machete and cut a new path.

I feel like music is oceanic - there's no end to what you can discover.

The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop.

I write to find out about how the world sings.

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.

I have never relied on anyone else for money since I graduated, and that made me feel grown up.

My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.

I think there are some things in music that work and don't work. That's learned from counterpoint and rhythm and theory, and they don't work if you don't want them to work.

I can make you part of something great and beautiful and still portray you as the ugly thing you are

Don't be afraid to be who you are, no matter who that person might be.

Never get angry against fate, she is looking for someone to crush, why put a spotlight on yourself?

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Be nice to nerds,,, one day u might have to work for one

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

Why are people so unkind?

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.

The best way to win is to not need to.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.