There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

Your choice of armor was your intellect.

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.