I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.

A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.