Optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter - it's just safer.

Excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself.

I find you get out of people what you put into them.

I think being raised spending so much time outdoors was really important - while you're in it, you might not know, but now I think of the things I was thankful for.

I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that didn't annoy parents. I used The Beatles 'Rocky Raccoon' as sort of a starting place for my writing.

We must demand more not from each other, but more from ourselves

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.