In real life I'm pretty easy going and pretty chill, I'm not the party girl who will go wild and crazy necessarily.

Cheating is bad. That's a big mistake I've made, and I've really hurt people. I've never lied about it, though. I've always been honest.

In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff.

No matter what, I always have expensive designer shoes. It's all about the shoes for me.

I think one day I'd like to win an Oscar.

I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all.

I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album.

I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.

When I write for myself, I just get to be myself.

I have a reoccurring dream that I'm in the ocean in New Zealand and everything is completely upside down, because it's on the other side of the planet.

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

You should visit the Palatine. It's at the top of that hill . . .""I know where the Palatine is, Dexter, I was visiting Rome before you were born.""Yes, who was emperor back then?

When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk.

Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

One day you will realise that for your life to change for the better, you must first change for the better.

If you don't trust yourself, you won't trust others. You make a choice and see where it goes.

I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.

I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.

Softball is an easy sport to fall in love because our game is fast paced and action packed.