May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.

Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

Love taught me to cry So come on courage! Teach me to be shy.

For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

My eyes were closed, they're open now

Stones taught me to fly Love taught me to lie And life taught me to die So it's not hard to fall When you float like a cannonball.

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].

Cold, cold water, surrounds me now, and all I've got is your hand.

We cannot please all men but we can be a blessing to many.

But you know what they say - old milk turns sour but old scores just get sweeter.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.

I can't live without my dark plum eyeliner. I use liquid because it's easier on my eyes.

Don't hate the media, become the media.

The best way to be original is to be yourself.