"I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked."

"I'm the thing fundamentalist Christians cringe over."

"I wanna be burned...definately burned like the witches."

"Pretty is never beautiful."

"It doesn't matter where I am, as long as there is a fat Italian cook nearby!"

"I can't imagine a world without music."

"Each song has a little soul, a little persona, its own little birth certificate, and its own favorite shoe shops."

"When I'm singing you're not hearing the other person's side of the story."

"I have good days. Like if I get really good coffee ice cream with just the right amount of chocolate syrup."

"I like butter, and people who like butter."

"It's a girl and her piano that found some boys who she digs, and the wine is good." --Speaking of From the Choirgirl Hotel

"...this film inspired me in a huge way, and it gave me chills, real chills. And, um, touched a place in my heart and I knew I wanted to be a part of it." --Speaking of the film Great Expectations

"Being a minister's daughter, I had theology for breakfast, lunch, and dinner."

"A lot of times I make a statement with shoes."

"I don't hate men. I give equal time in my hate. It's acts of people that I hate, whether they be men or women it's their behavior that I hate."

"You're an athlete--but it's musical."

"When I negotiate, I don't shrink away, because for some reason I can fight for my songs."

"Like hot chilles and vanilla yogurt." --when asked how she would describe her music

"I've been wearing hologram nail polish. I think at about 25, I just realized I had to find my own style. And sometime I'm gonna read some magazine and get it all wrong, but that's not a bad thing...and magazines can be wrong."

"Obviously we're all students, but you need to think of yourself as a peer."

"Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say, 'yes, i'm sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher.' well, there definitely is one!"

"Some of my lyrics upset my father."

"I'm just a warring little faction when i walk around, like waterloo is happening in my kidneys!"

"What is an angel but a ghost in drag?"

"Men have periods too, they just don't bleed..."

"There is a level of vampire in me, which is okay."

"You don't have to justify everything, being p***ed off is just absolutely okay"

"People can travel great distances on computers, so why can't we travel that way emotionally?"

"I think my mom would like to tag along and have a dance with Lucifer because she's been a minister's wife for so long!"

"Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, they won't have anything to complain about."

"I think its good that I played clubs for so long, because it makes you appreciate it when people are pouring their martinis all over your piano."

"When young people would start listening to their own voice instead of saying what adults say or what MTV dictates, this world would be a whole different planet"

"I would describe myself as...Atilla the Honey."