For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.

I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.

I am most alive when I let myself be touched by the fingers of life.

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.