Musician

As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.

I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.

Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.

I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.