Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

Sometimes I feel like a human pin cushion. Every painful emotion hits me with ridiculously exaggerated force. And the anxiety feels like hands inside of me, squeezing my guts really hard.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

It costs a lot of money to make an album in a studio in New York with a producer and musicians. I have to pay a publicist every month. I have to pay for mastering, production, the manufacturing of the discs. Then, to promote an album properly, you have to spend a lot of money.

My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

I've finally learned to love my voice for its uniqueness.

Just do what feels right.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

I think everyone's pretty much the same underneath. The collective unconscious is a real thing. There's only a few emotions, and we all have them. There's, like, seven emotions. So personal is universal. Everyone experiences confusion, joy and pain, just in different forms.

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.

Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.

My soul is fine, thanks.

What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?

In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

I'm full of contradictions.

My knees are ticklish.

Some of the songs are so crazy, the words are so crazy... it's hard to believe I was so crazy.

I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.

I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

Puerto Ricans who find they can no longer afford to keep their pets often choose to drop their dogs, sometimes even whole litters of puppies, at a beach - sometimes under cover of night, in secret - rather than surrender the animal to a city or state-run shelter where the animals will face grim conditions and almost certain death by euthanasia.

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses.

I have been a bridesmaid. Fortunately, the outfits were pretty tame. They were cream and black, but I still wouldn't wear them out in public, though.

My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the old pictures, the patriarchs have kind of a physical likeness to some of the men on the father's side of my family. I want it to be true.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.

I find myself a fascinating subject.

I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

I'm a neo-Luddite.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

The first kiss between two people is something really good in life.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.