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.

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

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 think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.

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.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

America's a very traumatized society.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

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.