“I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.”

“I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.”

“Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!”

“Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.”

“My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.”

“Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.”

“At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.”

“I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.”

“I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.”

“Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.”

“In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.”

“Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.”

“Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.”

“I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.”

“I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.”

“It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.”

“A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.”