I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated...It was a very unfettered, spiritual experience.

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.

Who I am inside determines how I feel about my body instead of the other way around