If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll be there with me forever, and I'll be there with them forever. And I'm totally satisfied with that.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

If women want to be appreciated for what we're saying, we've got to wear turtlenecks and long pants.

How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.