You're so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, You're just nice. I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right. I'm the witch. You're the world.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

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.

Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!

The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.

Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.