After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside.

I think every year I become happier because I become more comfident and more comfortable in my own skin.

I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I'm a storyteller, and history is stories - the most compelling stories. There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling.

Love is individual to each person and I don’t think you can define it before experiencing it because it isn’t going to be the same for everybody.

If you're in the public eye and you have young girls who look up to what you do, they're going to look to you for certain cues, so you have to take that as a responsibility, whether you think you deserve it or not.

I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that way.

I love to play music, and this is fun, and let's record this stuff in a way that we both like. That was exciting enough, so we just recorded it. There was no business in it until the very last minute, really. It was really as much of an extension of me writing the songs in my bedroom as it could possibly be.