When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.