Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying.

Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of respect. I'll still give someone the knife out of my pocket.

When you're writing with an artist or for an artist, you have to help them serve their vision. That's the cool part about writing songs. There are no rules.

Anytime that another artist or a critic that is well-respected says something nice about you, you're always thankful and hope that you can live up to that.

I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'

It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.

A humble man speaks not of his own humility

Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.

Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

Go now. Alone. Or I make good on my promise. -A

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.