I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

If I were a guy, it would be, you know, just a different set of problems I have to carry along.