"It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live."

"The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some."

"If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness."

"I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing."

"I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next."

"We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves."

"I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else."

"Trying to force creativity is never good."

"It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact."

"I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence."

"People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something."

"Nothing outside of my child is important."

"Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore."

"Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water."

"I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at."

"I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind."

"I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should."

"I play piano every day."

"I don't think about what other people want from me."

"I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that."

"I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to."

"They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly."

"Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates."

"It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing."

"I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means."

"I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it."

"I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible."

"I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from."

"'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song."

"I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it."

"We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars."