It's really hard to balance work and being a mother.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.

I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

When all the stars were falling, they fell from above, and I thought of hate, and I thought of hate, and then I thought of love.

You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.

If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.

Don't live in a world of 'I never should have'. Regret is a terrible burden to carry through life. It stoops your shoulders and keeps you looking down at the ground rather than up at the stars.

Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be.

We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.

I think the media has done a good job portraying him being a bad person, when in reality he's not.

It's always better to be the dumper than the dumpee.

Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

People are always surprised by how much I love to eat. I guess I don't look like I eat that much, but I can put it away.