The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf. Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I've gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, 'Why not? Now's the time.'

The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.