But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall

Musically I'm able to keep going, because it's not about money and it's not about success. It's a challenge.

Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.

Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present.

I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as a child, I thought I was Judy Garland. And when I started out, I was a little nuts. I thought I was a classic, legendary superstar when only 10 people knew who I was. I feel in some ways that my confidence is misinterpreted as arrogance, which is understandable. But I've also always thought that false modesty is evil.