Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers, so mothers be good to your daughters, too.

I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation... so when I meet someone who's an 8-color type... I'm like, 'Hey girl, magenta!' and she's like, 'Oh, you mean purple!' and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, 'No - I want magenta!'

It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself.