It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.

Try to keep your mind. Try not to eat bad, try not to wake up with too bad of a hangover.

I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.

I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.

I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

Everyone wants to be well-loved and appreciated but, at the same time, there are some people that just don't want to be your friend, and there's nothing you can do or say to change that.

Elvis Presley wore a Star of David and a cross around his neck and, when someone asked him about it, he said, "It makes me think." I love that quote. It's simple. It's beautiful. It's true.

I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.

I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.

However ordinary each of us may seem, we are all in some way special, and can do things that are extraordinary, perhaps until then…even thought impossible.

It is not any common earth, Water or wood or air, But Merlin’s Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will fare.

I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker.

I like when money makes a difference but don't make you different

I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.

The consequences of man-made climate change are real and very significant.

The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.

I am not a contemplative type, basically. I am much more of an action person and, as a consequence, I look forward to today and tomorrow and what's breaking.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

I am ill at these numbers.