'The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.''

'If you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, then maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.'

'When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?'

'If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.'