My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.

Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

When you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself.

I keep living this day like the next will never come.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

If I had a kid, and I had a choice between teaching somebody how to avoid trouble, or teaching them how to get out of it, I'd teach them how to get out of it.