Say it to them. Or say it to yourself in the mirror. Say it in a letter you'll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying 'I could've, but it's too late now.'

The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you’ll never forget someone if you’re trying to forget them.

Given that everyone is giving you their own opinion about him, I think the only opinion you should listen to is yours.

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

I really like my life right now. I have friends around me all the time. I’ve started painting more. I’ve been working out a lot. I’ve started to really take pride in being strong. I love the album I made. I love that I moved to New York. So in terms of being happy, I’ve never been closer to that.

I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it.

Sometimes you see these people who are just so—God—so affected by all of it, where ambition has taken precedence over happiness. But when I meet people who really embody this serenity of knowing that they have had an amazing life—James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, and Ethel Kennedy... They just seem to be effervescent.