The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I've got nothing but my aching soul?

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

Bad things happen everyday but you're not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don't think about them.

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do