When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.

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.

You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.

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.

Writing is a form of mischief.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.