Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.

Don't uncork what you can't contain

I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.

Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under all circumstances, they're just simple-minded. Kindness is only worth something if you have the cruel streak to back it up.

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

The first song I wrote was the first song I remember thinking, "Well, maybe I can do something here." The very first one. By the second one I knew I could do something.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.