Some shows suck, but I always - the show must go on. I learned it from my past as a child actor. The show must go on. You have to just keep on with it.

My favorite days off on the road are typically nowhere, like Bismarck, North Dakota, and you find yourself in a mall, and you're like, 'This is awesome!'

You wouldn't want to be in a rock band - trust me.

When I'm not working is when I tend to freak out a bit. It's hard for me to just stay home.

It's interesting how songs can evolve. Sometimes I'll write a song that feels relevant in the moment, but four years later, I don't want to sing it anymore. Then something will happen in my life, and the song becomes relevant again.

Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.

If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.

I wouldn't call it a faux pas, but I have about 12 tracksuits. I always travel in a tracksuit. I feel it makes people happy when they see me.

I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.'

I love 'Wowee Zowee.' That was the first Pavement record I bought.

I can parallel park pretty well - I'm a great driver.

I like babies, but not in the front row. I don't want to sing directly to a baby.

I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.

There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.

Songs are really interesting in that way. Sometimes, they grow with you. Sometimes, you outgrow them.

I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.

Sometimes people come to my shows and think I'm a Christian artist, and they put their hands up in the air, like they do. But first of all, I'm a Jewish girl from the Valley, and I'm from Los Angeles. It's funny to be misinterpreted.

Rock n' roll is a pretty fun job.

Certainly, we all wonder what is beyond, and when you lose a loved one, I think part of the grieving process includes where that person might have gone or if you'll ever see them again. I think it forces you to look up to the sky, to the cosmos.

I'm always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I'm very careful.

Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife.

I can't imagine how people will react to my music. For me, it's a really fluid process from one record to the next, but it's really up to the listener.

My hair looks so good out in the desert, it's unbelievable. It's, like, perfectly not frizzy.

When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel.