I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.

If the sun warms up the rain, and the rain puts out the sun. Why does the greatest love become the greatest pain?

I totally believe in magic. Because my life, I think, has been very magic, and magical things have come true for me time after time after time.

We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love.

The loneliness of a one night stand is hard to take.

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.

It's the first time I can ever remember being scared that the United States might mess up and something terrible will happen to us.