If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us. Julian Assange took a courageous step by rightfully returning what belongs to the public domain. For that reason, I believe we need to stand behind him.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so careless.

Music is like my security blanket.