It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.
Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...
Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.
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.
I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.
I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for...
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.
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.
We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.
I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me tellin...
Trying to force creativity is never good.
Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it.
I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.
I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.
It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.
There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that's harder than others.
I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the...
I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.