The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with – rather than in competition with – the world. Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

We have the power to help each other.

I hate it when people don’t spend the night.

There was a dance that everyone was doing that was heavily skewed with the power in one direction, but the dance was basically working, and then the dance got really disrupted with the first wave of feminism, and nobody found their footing yet – not the guys, not the women.

Art pries us open.

If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you’re worthy.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I’m so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that’s where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come – sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected – and it balances.