My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while, and then the funny side of me is going to come out. Slowly, people are going to realize they're seeing a completely honest evolution of human life.

And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

I volunteered at UCLA's occupational therapy ward, where there are lots of kids with autism and emotional problems. I just wanted to prove to myself that I could not break down and cry at everything, and that I could just help somebody else. The one thing I really remember was that when we would take them out of the hospital for a walk around campus, they would freak out the most when we were waiting for the elevator. I remember the guy at the elevator said to himself, "Transitions are the hardest." And I said to myself, "Transitions are always the hardest."

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.