People put you down because you're above them.

Don’t worry. You may think you’ll never get over it. But you also thought it would last forever.

I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

When I think about the things that cause me pain or the things that cause me trouble or frustration, it's not people asking for my autograph; it's people breaking my heart. That happens to you whether you've sold millions of records or whether you're taking classes at college. You're going to believe people when they say that they love you. I don't leave out details when I write songs about that. I try to make my songs as personal as possible because, ultimately, my music started out as just trying to turn my diary entries into something that was a piece of music. And that has never changed.

When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

I'm thankful that when I go to bed at night, that I have been myself that day. And, I have been myself all the days before that.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.