I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.

I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way.

Life is a game and true love is a trophy.

I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.

My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed.