I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember.

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake.

You don't know what will happen from one minute to the next.

Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.

I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.

How you look is your statement, because it's a claiming of yourself.