This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

It's been a long time since I felt something like hope. Don't ask me to give it up for Netflix and a Prius.

God help him if any of them ever came true. Why, he'd be a two-headed, three-toed, monkey-nosed, blind son of a cesspit-licking lackey is she had her way.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.

When a lot of people meditate what they do is they're thinking about other people. This is a terrible mistake. If you do this, stop!

When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall.

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

You get a little stir crazy during the week.

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.