"I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree."

"If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way."

"The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this."

"One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms."

"I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry."

"The pursuit of excellence requires knowing that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature."

"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."