We are never content with our lot..

I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, a….

Do what's right and you'll never go wrong..

I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that. On the street I only focus on the k….

To each our own Hamlet..

Graved inside of it, "Italy"..

Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humb….

Gifts make friends and friends make gifts..

I love Eminem, I love Moby. Why can't we just be friends?.

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done..

Because I loved myself, I was loved..

The romantic stuff comes a lot easier when you're experiencing true love. It feels better, it feels more natural to record love songs when you're in ….

I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking "Uptown Girl!" I was trying to sing like Frankie Vall….

You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn..

Women like being kissed..

I'm too old to be forced..

More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people bake the bread, and some people write th….

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage..

Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the seed, each song in the ….

I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like so….

The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being rejected and put your manuscript—or paint….