My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.

Im so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

America is definitely something I'm pretty excited about.

Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward.

There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

. The key to all of that is keeping hold of humility and keeping hold of the people around you, and making sure you stay grounded with your family and friends.

I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.

There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.

If you are a good hacker everybody knows you, But if you are a great hacker nobody knows you.

Being generous is not just aboutthe decisions you make withyour wallet. Being generouswith your time and energyis just as important.

As time passes, my story fades away.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.

I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall.

If we get into the habit of thinking of ourselves as always owing a debt of love to our spouses, we will be less inclined to take offense when they say or do something that we do not like.

There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.