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

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.

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

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.

The resources of the human mind are unlimited.

Our Congressmen are the finest body of men money can buy.

In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.

Science leads you to killing people.

No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike

The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?'

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with their views.

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.